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Photos of Cornwall's mines. If you know the places featured here, please don't mention it by name or location.

Exploring some of Cornwall's mines above and below ground in photos and videos.
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Important Note: We don't post the real names of the mines featured in our videos, to protect the sites and to stop others with less experience putting themselves in danger. Our team consists of ex miners, cavers and mine rescue, every trip is taken with caution and callouts made to other members of where we are underground. Please do not put yourself at risk or others by entering these abandonded mines.

19/06/2026

Formation Friday!
Looking down into a small pool in the top of a mineral formation in a Cornish tin mine.
Some lovely clear, but toxic water, containing some small stones. The yellow tint is from the iron and pyrite minerals in the surrounding rocks.

18/06/2026

Looking down a old ladderway to a lower level of the mine. The ladder is in very poor state with the metal rungs completely rusted away, leaving the wooden rails still in place, which are really still solid timber. This part of the mine dates to around 1800-1880.

17/06/2026

My buddy descending through a copper mine stope from around 60ft above. Note the huge rock pillar jammed in place below him, not sure if this was left in place of fallen down from above and lodged there.

16/06/2026

Exploring a old Cornish copper mine, which some parts date back to as early as 1737, but mostly worked around the 1800 - 1880's.
My buddy is descending a small drop of about 12ft down through what was once a stope, a place where ore was mined out leaving these long tall voids.

15/06/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
A lovely aqua blue copper related mineral formation in a Cornish copper mine level.
The formation is soft like clay and very delicate, as well as quite toxic.

12/06/2026

Formation Friday!
Some short but colourful stalagmites in a old tin mine level. The formations are around 30cm tall and taken a good 100-140 years to grow.

11/06/2026

Loved the way the timbers have been placed to support the overhead rock in this old tin and copper mine. Although the timber in the middle seems to have broken, they are still looking quite sturdy, but we wouldn't want to touch them. This section would have been hand drilled and blasted, possible around the early 1800's

10/06/2026

One from the archives a few years ago, sadly not accessible now, this old manway adit that has some amazing timbering along one section. The manway leads around 350ft to a shaft with a drop of about 60-80ft to the water level.

09/06/2026

The view looking straight down a winze (a shaft connecting levels but does not go to the surface) in a old copper and tin mine.
On the timber going across the winze is a chain still wrapped around it and what looks like a possible iron ladder bracket, the ladder long gone. What I loved about this photo is to the left of the timber, the perfectly stacked rocks on a timber support, a real work of art how cleanly stacked together they are.

08/06/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
Spotted these amazing small blue stalactites growing in a old copper mine level.
Such a stunning shade of blue from the copper minerals that are present in the surrounding rocks.

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