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A Cornish stamp battery. A stamp battery is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores.

A Cornish stamp battery. A stamp battery is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. This type of stamping machinery which would have contributed…

Wheal Bellan Mine. The building pictured is probably the "dry" where miners changed their clothes. Built in 1940 by the Ministry of Supply, it has since been demolished and is now a car park

Ruins of Levant Mind compressor and generator house.

Woman standing, looking at ruins of Wheal Sally.

Wheal Bellan Mine. Pipes fed water under building from leat higher up the Valley. High speed small water wheel called Pelton Wheel used to generate compressed air or electricity. Only base remained, as of 1996.

Bellan Mine. Building where ore crushing took place and frame work for settling tables. Built by Ministry of Supply 1940.

Wheal Bellan Mine. The building pictured is probably the "dry" where miners changed their clothes. Built in 1940 by the Ministry of Supply, it has since been demolished and is now a car park. Duplicate of MIN 8.035

Bellan Mine. The Stamping Mill Porth Nanven. Most of the buildings relate to the periods of working 1912-19 and 1939-45.

Twin stamps at Levant Tin and Copper Mine

A hand cart with photographer's equipment at Gurnard's Head Mine.

Beam, engine house, launders and overshot wheel at unnamed Cornish mine.

Photo of an engraving which was on show at Redruth Library.

A typical Cornish mine scene of the 1880s. Pictured here is Carn Galver Mine, situated between Rosemergy and Porthmeor on the Land's End-to-St Ives coastal road. Remains of these buildings can still be seen near the Count House (administrative…

Engine is now housed in Holmans Museum Camborne

Blown down in Gale
Group posing