'Ale and Cakes Mine' canvas print

Ale and Cakes Mine, United Downs.
I pass these kinds of ruins everyday without giving them much thought. Found this online which really brings home the scale of Cornwall's mining!..
In the early 1820s a young man called John Taylor acquired the lease of abandoned mines in Gwennap parish and spent the next few years building up the mines. He initially reworked their setts before striking the richest copper lode in the world at that time. The fortunes of the Gwennap mines and John Taylor in particular improved to such a great extent that they were well in profit by 1822. The chief production of the area was copper although there was some tin produced as well as ochre. The output was then shipped North along the Portreath tram road to the port of Portreath for smelting in South Wales.
United Downs group produced 347,500 tons of 7.5% copper ore, 250 tons of black tin, 158 tons of arsenic, 1,290 tons of pyrite and 271 tons of zinc ore during the years 1815-61. Eldon's pumping engine house also known as Little's held a 30" cylinder pumping engine and was built around the 1830's.
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Camera Canon EOS R
Filter Kolari K590
Lens Sigma 14-24 mm F2.8 DG HSM Art
Focal Length 14.0 mm
Exposure Time 1/40
Aperture F11.0
ISO 100

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