Cornish Mine Explorer

Cornish Mine Explorer 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.

Formation Friday!Spotted this amazing brown mineral formation, I am guessing mostly iron related minerals here, deep ins...
05/06/2026

Formation Friday!
Spotted this amazing brown mineral formation, I am guessing mostly iron related minerals here, deep inside a Cornish copper and tin mine level.
Sadly nothing in the photo for scale but it's at least 4ft tall.

A nice spot of timberwork (possibly 1970's?) In a Cornish copper mine adit. The mine was worked from the early 1800s and...
04/06/2026

A nice spot of timberwork (possibly 1970's?) In a Cornish copper mine adit. The mine was worked from the early 1800s and handed over to the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London in 1908.

A pretty awesome find, these rising mains pipe (once used to pump water out of a mine) that have been reproposed as a dr...
03/06/2026

A pretty awesome find, these rising mains pipe (once used to pump water out of a mine) that have been reproposed as a drain pipe for diverting water down a winze and onto a wooden launder, taking the water down to the lower drainage adit level.
Part of a old copper and tin mine.

Quite a rare sight to see when exploring old mines, this wooden miners wheelbarrow, (minus the wheel and missing a handl...
02/06/2026

Quite a rare sight to see when exploring old mines, this wooden miners wheelbarrow, (minus the wheel and missing a handle) on the floor of a level, deep inside a tin and copper mine.

01/06/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
A stunning small stream of blue minerals flowing slowly down a slightly incline level, deep inside a Cornish copper and tin mine.

Formation Friday!We spotted this weird spine like formation in a small colourful patch of blues and greens in a old Corn...
29/05/2026

Formation Friday!
We spotted this weird spine like formation in a small colourful patch of blues and greens in a old Cornish tin mine stope. This one small formation really caught our eye!

The beautiful blue coloured water that goes deeper into the stope below in this old copper and tin mine, around 100ft be...
28/05/2026

The beautiful blue coloured water that goes deeper into the stope below in this old copper and tin mine, around 100ft below the surface.

27/05/2026

A short video clip of a rising main pipe still in situ along with a few more pipes nearby, in a West Devon mine, around 100m below the surface.

A photo looking down on my buddy descending the rope to a second pitch which drops down around 80ft through a huge verti...
26/05/2026

A photo looking down on my buddy descending the rope to a second pitch which drops down around 80ft through a huge vertical stope. Just a tiny part of this huge old Cornish copper mine.

25/05/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
A short video clip of the amazing blue mineral waterfall in a Cornish tin mine.
The scale of this formation is really hard to show as it goes up around 80-100ft at least. This mine dates to around 1840-1880, we are arount 150ft below the surface at this point.

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