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Botallack Mine

Botallack Mine, United Kingdom. Heritage site, underground, mining tin, copper, arsenic.

Why Botallack Mine is famous

Clifftop Crowns engine houses with an arsenic labyrinth and calciner. St Just undersea mining was more concentrated than anywhere else in the 18th and 19th centuries.1,2,3

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Botallack Mine today

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An example ofDevon Great ConsolsBotallack kept an arsenic labyrinth. Devon Great Consols built an arsenic refinery in 1922.1Partner ofLevant Mine and Beam EngineBoth worked under the sea at St Just. Levant's 1840 beam engine is still steamed.1Partner ofGeevor Tin MineBoth are St Just mines: Geevor closed in 1990, Botallack's clifftop engine houses remain.1

Places

Located inSt JustBotallack Mine sits at St Just.1Located inCornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeBotallack Mine is about 21 km from Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.1

Sources

  1. St Just mining district Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
  2. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape UK National Commission for UNESCO
  3. Wikidata entity Q894620

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: miners in a mine shaft, standing on wooden platforms connected by ladders. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910., Burrow, J. C., 1852-1914 (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Timna in de Negevwoestijn; rotspartij "de zuilen van Salomo", Poll, Willem van de / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Chiquicamata Mine, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).