Wheal Rose black and white
by Terri Waters
Title
Wheal Rose black and white
Artist
Terri Waters
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The name Carn Galver means rockpile at the lookout place. There is a small pumping and a whim engine house on the St Just - St Ives coastal road (B3306). The mine was worked until 1878.
Carn Galver Mine is situated below the hill of Watchcroft. The sett was worked under a variety of names; Wheal Rose, Rosemergy Mine and as part of Morvah and Zennor United. Both the remaining engine houses, a pumping and a whim house were built in 1871. The main operation was relatively short lived with the mine closing in 1876 having produced only 150 tons of Tin.
The entrance to the main mine adit now blocked can be seen in the back of Porthmonia Cove over half a mile away. Between the engine houses and the cove there are the remains of a small Tin processing plant, several wheelpits which drove Cornish Stamps can be seen on the site.
Uploaded
August 19th, 2015
Statistics
Viewed 417 Times - Last Visitor from Ottawa, ON - Canada on 04/24/2024 at 6:49 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet