Levels
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ABOVE Cligga Head Mine. Just inside
the middle adit.
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All in granite
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Main shaft at bottom level
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ABOVE: Wheal Margery Adit, just in from the beach. Note
granite stemples and obvious mineral vein
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ABOVE This stope, probably part of the
Providence Mines, emerges on Carbis bay beach.
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Above: Main Shaft at adit level, Mount Wellington Mine.
This mine is now sealed off.
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Above: Old 'double adit' Mount Wellington
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Stopes in Mount Wellington Mine
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Above: The St Just area is notes for its narrow stopes,
often worked by just one man. Picture in St Just United mine.
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Typical of Cornish mines is the use of square cut timbers
of imported pine. Forests are few in that area.
![](images/Cornwall/stope5.jpg)
Most Cornish mines were originally worked for copper, tin
only came in at depth or as an alluvial deposit.
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Ore was often raised by the use of a skipway, the copper
staining adds decoration.
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