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FOR THE PRESERVATION AND STUDY OF CORNWALL'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

 

Established 1935

Industrial gazetteer: mines

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Holmbush Mine

 

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  Holmbush Mine engine houses

 

An old mine active in the 1600s which produced lead and copper.  This view shows Hichen's Shaft, dating from when the mine restarted in 1876 as Callington United.  The centre building worked the 'Cornish rolls' or copper crusher.

 

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