The following historic images are courtesy Kresen Kernow archive, published by J C Burrow circa 1890.
Author: mindat
Duchy Records state that in 1799 the Wheal Virgin mine was “raising tin fast,” and was owned by a company called Gill and Co, its agent
Amalgamated alongside Wheal Cupboard and Poldory into United Mines around 1780. A great many of the mine pumps and engines of the area were installed by Richard Michell.
The only engine house in Cornwall to have a castellated stack! Wheal Ellen was in operation in the 1850’s and could have been a re-working
West Chiverton / Great West Chiverton mine was a rich producer of lead, silver-lead and zinc. At its peek it employed around 1,000 people. Batters’
Wheal Betsy mine was reputedly started in 1740, although may have started earlier than this date. The principle lode runs north-south and was developed for three quarters of a mile, yielding lead, zinc and silver.
The oldest of the mines in the Kit Hill/Gunnislake area was at Holmbush, the massive burrows of whcih stand immediately West of the Stoke Climsland
Already a considerable copper producer by the end of the eighteenth century, Old Gunnislake Mine is reputed to have produced over half a million pound’s
The earliest documented record of mining at Gunnislake Clitters dates to the 1820s. However, mining was probably going on long before, and within Clitters Wood
Hingston Down was a copper mine worked from at least the 17th century. During the 1850s rich copper deposits were discovered and by 1864, 225