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This guided tour of Rosevale Mine will provide people with an experience of a typical Cornish mine.  Visitors will be able to see how preferred mining techniques were used to extract the mineral wealth from underground.  There will also be opportunities to see the typical granite-hosted mineralisation that provides majority of economic deposits in SW England.

Rosevale Mine is a typical small-scale 19th century tin mining operation near Zennor in west Cornwall.  Rosevale is now owned by the Rosevale Historical Mining Society, and over the last 30 years they have restored the mine, allowing visitors to experience a typical Cornish mine. 

More information can be found on the Rosevale Mine website.

Trip details

There are a maximum of 20 spaces available for this trip.  If you would like to attend please confirm you booking by emailing Sam Hughes – [email protected]

We will meet in the car park in Zennor village (SW 454 384) at 10:00 am.  There will be a 10 minute walk from there up the valley to the mine.  The tour will take approximately 2 hours.

The tour will take us in to the No. 2 level of the mine.  There are no shafts to climb down, but there will be a 30 metre climb up the stope and we will exit on the upper No. 1 level.  The mine is quite narrow so this trip is not suitable for people of a claustrophobic disposition.

Lamps and hard hats will be provided, but you will need to be wearing sturdy footwear / wellies, and clothes which you don’t mind getting wet and muddy.

Cost

There is no official charge for this trip, but there will be a hat passed around at the end asking for donations to the Rosevale Historical Mining Society, so they can keep on with the work to restore the mine.

Venue

Rosevale Mine, near Zennor, west Cornwall 

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