File:Coast path near Towanroath shaft, St Agnes, Cornwall - 2 (14776820968).jpg
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The National Trust coast path from White Cliffs to Towanroath, near St Agnes in Cornwall. Wheal Coates is a former tin mine situated on the north coast of Cornwall, England, on the cliff tops between Porthtowan and St Agnes. It is preserved and maintained by the National Trust. ‘Wheal’ is Cornish for ‘place of work’, not 'mine' as is often stated. The term for 'mine' is 'bal', as in 'bal maidens', the women who worked on the surface. The site was worked for centuries but the surviving buildings date from the 1870s when deep underground mining began at the site and were stabilised and preserved in 1986. There are three engine houses that formerly housed Cornish engines. Towanroath Pumping Engine House (1872) was used to pump water from the adjacent 600 ft Towanroath shaft. Whim Engine House was added in 1880 to crush ore for processing. A calciner dating from 1910–1913 roasted the tin to remove impurities such as arsenic. In 1881 138 people were employed at the site to mine a seam of tin just below sea level but this and a subsequent period of operation from 1911-1913 were not very successful because tin production was sporadic. Photo by Thomas Tolkien <a href="http://thomastolkien.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Website</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thomas-Tolkien/130073810352698" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Facebook Fan Page</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/tomtolkien" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a> If you use this photo under the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Creative Commons license</a>, please attribute the photo with a name credit and a link to my website. For example: "Photo by <a href="http://thomastolkien.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tom Tolkien</a>". Copyright Tom Tolkien 2014 photo by Thomas Tolkien. Available via Creative Commons attribution license. CC-BY. (Photographer must be credited in the manner detailed on the photo information.) |
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| Author | Thomas Tolkien from Yorkshire, UK |
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