The Mine Buildings

The Mine buildings here at Geevor help us to understand how tin was mined on site in the past. 

There has been mining on this site for thousands of years and the modern company of Geevor was formed in the early years of the twentieth century. Geevor Tin Mine was the largest employer in the area, and one of the biggest tin mines in the country, until it was forced to finally close in 1990 with the crash in the price of tin.

Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the David Wills collection held by the Geevor Archive