Wheal Pendarves

Killivose, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK

Wheal Pendarves is a former tin mine in Cornwall, operated between the 1960s and 1985, prior to the tin price crash.

Specimens from this site may be labelled as various lodes or shafts, including:

  • Frasers Lode
  • Harriet Lode
  • Killivose Lode
  • Q7 Lode
  • Q7A Lode
  • Simms shaft
  • Tryphena Lode

 

As of 2017, the site was completely cleared of dumps and has been replaced with an equestrian centre.

 

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