Cornish tin
Cornish tin: the mines, the history and the landscape they left
Tin has come out of Cornish ground for thousands of years. Start with the history page if you want the whole arc; go to South Crofty if you want to know whether any of it is coming back.
2 guides in this section
Cornish Tin Mining History: From the Bronze Age to South Crofty and After
How Cornish tin mining began, boomed and ended: granite geology, stannary law, steam pumping, the deepest mines, emigration, the 1998 closure and what remains.
South Crofty Tin Mine: Closure, Ownership, Depth and the Reopening Work
South Crofty at Pool, Cornwall: why the last Cornish tin mine closed in 1998, who owns it, how deep it goes, and the dated state of the reopening work.
Image credits
- Engine houses and chimney stacks on the cliffs at Levant Mine above a blue sea — ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
