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Geevor Tin Mine

Geevor Tin Mine, United Kingdom. Heritage site, underground, mining tin.

Why Geevor Tin Mine is famous

Closed in 1990 and described as the largest metalliferous mine site open to the public in the UK.1,2,3

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Timeline

  1. 24 October 1985International Tin Council collapse4

What kind of deposit

Tin greisen and tin vein

Geevor Tin Mine today

Where tin is mined todayMining in United Kingdom

Where next

Mines

Partner ofBotallack MineBoth are St Just mines: Geevor closed in 1990, Botallack's clifftop engine houses remain.1

Events

ExamplesInternational Tin Council collapseGeevor closed in 1990, five years after the tin agreement ran out of money.4

Places

Located inSt JustGeevor Tin Mine is about 3 km from St Just.1Located inCornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeGeevor Tin Mine is about 21 km from Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.1

Deposit types

An example ofTin greisen and tin veinGeevor Tin Mine belongs to the tin greisen and tin vein family of deposits.5

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 Q3314843
  4. Tin written answer, 29 October 1985 UK Parliament (Hansard)
  5. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

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); Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).