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Levant Mine and Beam Engine

Levant Mine and Beam Engine, United Kingdom. Heritage site, underground, mining copper, tin.

Why Levant Mine and Beam Engine is famous

Undersea mine at St Just. Its beam engine, built in 1840, is the oldest surviving Cornish beam engine and is still steamed.1,2,3,4

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Levant Mine and Beam Engine today

Where copper is mined todayWhere tin is mined todayMining in United Kingdom

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Mines

Partner ofBotallack MineBoth worked under the sea at St Just. Levant's 1840 beam engine is still steamed.1

Places

Located inSt JustLevant Mine and Beam Engine is about 3 km from St Just.1Located inCornwall and West Devon Mining LandscapeLevant Mine and Beam Engine is about 22 km from Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.1

Sources

  1. St Just mining district Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
  2. Dolcoath Mine Grace's Guide
  3. Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape UK National Commission for UNESCO
  4. Wikidata entity Q1821720

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: Timna in de Negevwoestijn; rotspartij "de zuilen van Salomo", Poll, Willem van de / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); 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); Earth Observations taken by the Expedition 15 Crew, NASA JSC (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Mijnramp Bois du Caizier, Marcinelle, België. Schacht, Rossem, Wim van / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).