Cornish Mining

Geevor Underground

Geevor at Grass

Life at the edge

Rocks and Metals

Removing the Ore

miner underground filling a wagon

Once the rock had been broken it had to be transported to the surface.

Broken ore from development tunnels and stopes was loaded into wagons and transported to the mine Shaft for hoisting to the surface.

 

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

 

The Wethered Shaft

Click to see a larger version of this imagethe Wethered shaft

The original ‘Geevor Tin Mines, Ltd’ which was established in 1911 used the shaft near the entrance with the prominent wooden headgear as their main access to the mine.


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Under the Sea

Click to see a larger version of this imagesealing the breach under the sea

As early as the 18th Century the workings at Levant mine, to the west of Geevor, stretched out below the sea bed. 


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Mine Shafts

Click to see a larger version of this imagediagram depicting the victory shaft, with levels, drives, crosscuts and lode

Mine shafts provide access for men, materials and services and shafts are also used to hoist the ore to surface for processing.


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The Royal Visit 28th November 1980

Click to see a larger version of this imagethe Queen underground unvieling the Victory shaft sub incline extension

On Friday 28th Nov 1980, Queen Elizabeth II visited Geevor for the opening ceremony of the newly developed Sub-Incline Extension.


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Comment left by john.woodcraft on 2010-03-16 16:44:46

what a magnificient acheivement at the time,and all I noticed,was the red/pink of the sea,and my eyes,(big drinker then)

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