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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.

28/10/2026

One of the team making his way through these small maze like levels in a old copper/tin mine, dating back to around 1840/1880.
A nice stack of dead's behind him, waste rock not taken to the surface, stacked up on the sides of the levels.

27/10/2026

Lots of stull supports in this old Cornish tin mine stope with a lot of iron/pyrite in the surrounding rock making it very unstable to mine. Plenty of signs of collapsing in this mine, so we do take great care whilst exploring down there!

26/10/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
A almost symmetric blue mineral run down the side of a level in a 1850's Cornish copper mine level.

23/10/2026

Formation Friday!
A interesting looking patch of dried out stalactites in a lower level of a tin mine that is usually underwater in the Winter months. These are mostly iron and pyrite minerals, but look very strange, almost like they have been deep fried!

22/10/2026

A lower level in a Cornish tin mine, usually under a lot of water in the Winter months, now dry as it will ever be, leaving a interesting tide line along the sides of the level.

21/10/2026

Looking up at almost a vertical angle towards timbers in the stope above in this Cornish mixed mine, around 200-250ft below the surface.

20/10/2026

Some amazing huge timbering in a West Devon copper mine. Above these is a huge stope, these timbers were over a haulage level, protecting it and the miners from falling rocks.

19/10/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
Looking down a section of a level in a Cornish copper mine with lots of blue staining/mineral formations on both sides.

16/10/2026

Formation Friday!
This was a impressive mineral formation deep inside a Cornish copper mine. Around 8ft tall and 4ft wide.

15/10/2026

A vertical stope in Cornish copper mine, complete with platforms above and a ladder in the distance. This was around 200ft below the surface, with the stope being around 4-8ft wide in places. The platforms continued upwards a good distance, we could see at least another 2 above and below with a spacing of around 20-30ft between them.

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