Cornish Mining Landscape

Cornish miners travelled the World to build mines in the formal and informal British Empire. Their skills were developed in their home county which was honeycombed with mines for copper, tin and arsenic.

Here's one of many derelict Cornish mines, near St Day on the Portreath to Devoran cycle tracks that follow the old mineral tramways. Copper was exported at these ports and timber and coal for the mines imported and transported inland.

Now the old mines inhabit rural landscapes that were once industrial moonscapes.