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Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ruins of the former Wheal Basset stamphouses and tin processing plant.
Basset Mines was a mining company formed in Cornwall, England, by the amalgamation of six copper and tin mining setts. It operated from 1896 until 1918, when it was closed due to a fall in the price of tin.
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Rocky hilltop with a view of the sea, a small castle, a large stone monument, and iron age stone circles
Impressive Cornish beam engines and industrial heritage discovery centre, at the very heart of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, sit these two great beam engines, originally powered by high-pressure steam boilers, invented by local hero Richard Trevithick.
A museum and visitor centre on the topic of Cornish tin mining history, with working displays of machinery. The site has a cafe and shop containing specialist books and gifts.
This machinery, set up in 1865, pulverised mining waste which still contained useful amounts of tin. The ore was refined and sent for smelting; it's nowadays made into jewellery.