Higher Bal Archives - Explore Cornwall https://explorecornwall.org/tag/higher-bal/ & The Cornish Abroad Sun, 08 Aug 2021 07:47:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://explorecornwall.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-Explore-Cornwall-Colourless-32x32.png Higher Bal Archives - Explore Cornwall https://explorecornwall.org/tag/higher-bal/ 32 32 164779662 Higher Levant Mine https://explorecornwall.org/higher-levant-mine/ Sun, 08 Aug 2021 07:46:30 +0000 https://explorecornwall.org/?p=5692 Just up the road from Levant is the well preserved engine house of Higher Levant.  Formally part of Spearn Consols, this section was incorporated into […]

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Just up the road from Levant is the well preserved engine house of Higher Levant. 

Higher Levant

Formally part of Spearn Consols, this section was incorporated into Levant mine in 1877. This part of the sett worked until 1914 at which point it was abandoned. 

Guide shaft

The engine house is a 35″ rotative engine installed in 1887 where it wound and pumped from Guide shaft. The engine originally drove stamps for Spearn Consols. Between the house and shaft are the large mountings for flat rods. Alongside the road is the very prominent wall that encloses the shaft; this incorporates two ore shoots and the arched entrance to the shaft. 

Higher Levant

The shaft is Guide shaft, it reached 80 fathoms (146m) onto Guide lode. 

Guide shaft

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