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  • Tags: Mining and quarrying

M.0175.tif
Cape Cornwall early views from the north east.
Chimneys . Brissons.

M.0179.tif
Print showing Wherrytown Mine Pump column, on the sea shore at low tide, from the Promenade, Penzance

M.453.tif
Pump Collar, Wherry Mine , Wherrytown beach low tide, Penzance

M.457.tif
Winding engine House,East Boscaswell Mine ,Wheal Hearle , Pendeen.

M.536.tif
Botallack Mine , St Just Gibson / Preston
on the back stamped W.THOMAS Refreshment rooms, Lands End. luncheons Daily, Good Stabling.

M.557.tif
Copy of a post card of Perranuthnoe Village viewed from Trebarvah
showing Wheal Charlotte Mine top right

M.594.tif
Botallack Mine, Penwith, Cornwall, Etching.
copy.

Mine Kenidjack Valley Engine House Pump House

M.1458.tif
Mining Botallack incline , wooden scaffolding.

MIN 6.001.tif
Levant, hand drilling below the sea. Four men pictured with tools.

MIN 6.002.tif
An early photograph of Levant Mine before the 1899 construction of Pendeen Lighthouse.

MIN 6.003.tif
Men surveying on the surface at Levant Mine, with a theodolite.

MIN 6.004.tif
The ruins of Levant Mine, showing Headgear engine house.

MIN 6.006.tif
Miners at Wheal Veor (Wheal Vor) Mine, wearing gear and helmets with acetylene lamps.

MIN 6.007.tif
In the 19th century, large quantities of arsenic were refined and exported to the Americas for use against the boll weevil which was then threatening to destroy American cotton crops. After heat treatment, the arsenic was ground in a mill similar…

MIN 4.027.tif
Two ruined engine houses with chimneys smoking.

MIN 4.030.tif
Wheal Prosper engine house, Rinsey, in April 1978

MIN 4.031.tif
Engine houses smoking, unidentified mine, seen from down road with fence along it.

MIN 4.032.tif
Engine houses smoking, unidentified mine, with yellow van and other cars in front.

MIN 4.033.tif
Engine houses smoking, unidentified mine.
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