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Mining under the Sea. Explore #6
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Crown Engine Mines. Cornwalls rugged North coast and old mines built at the waters edge.
After heavy rains, this was captured after a careful decent down the wet grassy banks to the cliff face.
Botallack is a submarine mine, with its workings reaching half a mile out under the seabed. Many of these workings would have been produced with hammers, chisels and gunpowder, long before compressed and mechanical air drills were invented. I can't imagine how awful it must have been.
Possibly the most photographed point of the mine, the three crown rocks just offshore stand over lodes which stretch far out to sea. They were most likely first worked in the sixteenth century. The entire mine closed in 1895 due to rapidly falling copper and tin prices.(National Trust)
Mining under the Sea. Explore #6
www.photocrowd.com/blog/186-beyond-sea-3-images-uk-coasta...
Crown Engine Mines. Cornwalls rugged North coast and old mines built at the waters edge.
After heavy rains, this was captured after a careful decent down the wet grassy banks to the cliff face.
Botallack is a submarine mine, with its workings reaching half a mile out under the seabed. Many of these workings would have been produced with hammers, chisels and gunpowder, long before compressed and mechanical air drills were invented. I can't imagine how awful it must have been.
Possibly the most photographed point of the mine, the three crown rocks just offshore stand over lodes which stretch far out to sea. They were most likely first worked in the sixteenth century. The entire mine closed in 1895 due to rapidly falling copper and tin prices.(National Trust)