Cornish Mining

Geevor Underground

Geevor at Grass

Life at the edge

Rocks and Metals

The Mine Buildings

mine buildings highlighting the victory shaft headgear and timber area

The Mine buildings here at Geevor help us to understand how tin was mined on site in the past. 

There has been mining on this site for thousands of years and the modern company of Geevor was formed in the early years of the twentieth century. Geevor Tin Mine was the largest employer in the area, and one of the biggest tin mines in the country, until it was forced to finally close in 1990 with the crash in the price of tin.

 

Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of the David Wills collection held by the Geevor Archive

 

Compressor house

Click to see a larger version of this imagecompressor machinery

There have been several compressor houses on the Geevor site in the past. 


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Mine Rescue and First Aid Room

Click to see a larger version of this imageinterior of the mine rescue room displaying breathing apparatus, hard hats and equipment

Geevor had a team of rescuers and first aider’s trained to deal with any kind of accident or fire outbreak. 


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Winder House

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There are two winders at Geevor which were used to haul cages of men and skips of ore up Victory shaft. 


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The Sample House

Click to see a larger version of this imagesample house equipment

The Sample House was built between 1908 and 1912 and originally used for sample preparation and both Vanning and Chemical Assays.    


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Comment left by owen on 2010-01-28 14:28:33

this website is rubbish

Comment left by colin & christine on 2011-07-11 10:51:07

An amazing place to visit, especially "The dry" so poignant, more pictures please.

 

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Comment left by Ben Orchard on 2011-11-22 09:22:59

My father Bob Orchard worked here for many years

 

Comment left by Cat on 2014-06-15 09:35:11

I was at Geevor in 2010, and I found the Dry very unsettling. In a good way--it was probably my favourite part of the museum. The idea of those clothes and boots and shirts hanging there for twenty-one years, waiting for the men to come back...there was something both touching and haunting about it.

 

Comment left by Bob Orchard on 2016-08-27 07:11:11

The original substation was the building that is now the mine shop. 11,000 Volt power via underground cable from the Trewellard substation did not happen until the mid 1970's

 

Comment left by Bob Orchard on 2016-08-27 07:14:20

The 11,000 Volt three phase power lines (two sets) from Hayle to Geevor were known as "Geevor black" & "Geevor white"

 

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