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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.

02/09/2026

Looking across a stope towards the start of a blue mineral waterfall in a Cornish mixed mine, where many minerals was extracted such as tin, copper, arsenic, lead...
The old chains were put in some time ago and the bolts holding them are long past their best. Around 160ft below the surface here with a drop of about 90ft below this and a further drop down to water.

01/09/2026

Walking the planks on timbers over the top of a stope with deep drop of at least 100ft below in this old mixed mine. Thankfully clipped onto the rope above, safety is paramount underground!

31/08/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
A strip of blue mineral formations in this old tin mine stope, around 2cm in hight and still growing slowly each year as water pushes out the micro fine minerals and leaves this strange strip like formation.

28/08/2026

Formation Friday!
A close up of this iron and pyrite mineral formation deep inside a old Cornish tin mine level.

27/08/2026

A old wooden ladder in this 1800-1812 tin/copper mine stope. The rest of the ladderway has long fallen on the floor below. It would have once gone up all the way to the surface around 100ft above.

26/08/2026

Impressive amount of timbering in this old Cornish tin/copper mine stope, around 100ft below the surface at this point. On the right hand side above me s a small level leading to a shaft which would have once gone to the surface, it also connects back into the stope and into another level that goes around 50ft to a collapse.

25/08/2026

My exploring buddy from "up North" descending through the stope in this old Cornish tin/copper mine, which was worked around 1800-1812.

24/08/2026

Happy Blue Monday!
This is one huge blue mineral waterfall in a Cornish mixed mine stope, which is at least 60ft high. There is a fellow explorer above me in the photo for scale as we both climb up to the platform above.

21/08/2026

Formation Friday!
Looking above me at loads of stumpy stalactites in this old tin mine level. Composed of what looks like mostly iron and pyrite minerals, quite acidic stuff too, we have to be mega careful not to get any of these water drops in our eyes.

20/08/2026

My buddy looking towards daylight in this old tin mine, not the way we came into this mine, but a interesting way out if we didn't fancy the 100+ft mineshaft climb out.

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