	Perranzabuloe Museum Location:- Ponsmere road, Perranporth, Cornwall, TR6 0BW
Home St Piran Farming Mining Railway Wartime Seashore Display Areas Photographs Personalities What's on ?	Mining The cliffs in the parish would have been mined from the earliest times. In the 14th century there were lead and silver mines. In the latter part of the 18th and 19th centuries the great copper mines of Great St George and Wheal Leisure were in full production and in the second half of the 19th century West Chyverton lead and silver mine employed over a thousand people. NB "Wheal" is the Cornish word for mine. The last serious mining in the parish was in the early 1940s when tin and wolfram were mined at Cligga Head It is said that all known minerals can be found beneath the Cornish earth. The museum has a number of artifacts associated with the industry and a model of a miner dressed in typical clothing. There is also a case displaying some of the minerals that could be mined in this area.
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Perranzabuloe Museum

Location:- Ponsmere road, Perranporth, Cornwall, TR6 0BW

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The cliffs in the parish would have been mined from the earliest times. In the 14th century there were lead and silver mines. In the latter part of the 18th and 19th centuries the great copper mines of Great St George and Wheal Leisure were in full production and in the second half of the 19th century West Chyverton lead and silver mine employed over a thousand people.

NB "Wheal" is the Cornish word for mine.

The last serious mining in the parish was in the early 1940s when tin and wolfram were mined at Cligga Head

It is said that all known minerals can be found beneath the Cornish earth. The museum has a number of artifacts associated with the industry and a model of a miner dressed in typical clothing. There is also a case displaying some of the minerals that could be mined in this area.

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