& The Cornish Abroad
Botallack mine can be found perched delicately on the cliffs in West Penwith. An ancient monument, this long working mine is really a collection of...
This will be as complete a list of engine houses and major opening and closing dates of all the mines featured on this website as...
Some photos from a recent trip to Glendurgan Garden, a National Trust garden near Falmouth. For a post about the gardens history go here. Access...
Just south of the hamlet of Rosudgeon is the overgrown remains of Wheal Georgia mine. This tiny sett was working in the late 19th century, […]
The Busselton Jetty is the longest timber piled jetty in the entire Southern Hemisphere, stretching 1841 kilometres. The jetty was build in response to the […]
Eight years after the formation of the South Australian colony and just one year after ‘Coppermania’ started at Kapunda, more copper was found at what […]
Just 175km west of Kalgoorlie is the former pastoral lease Jaurdi Homestead, nestled within the Great Western Woodland. Following Ryan’s Find Road from the Great […]
On the Yorke Peninsula are the scant remains of Wallaroo mine, the mine that started the third South Australian copper rush after Kapunda in 1842 […]
Just a short distance north of Kalgoorlie are the well-kept remains of Goongarrie Homestead. Encompassing roughly 60,000 hectares, the Goongarrie Homestead was once a working […]
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