Rock Face | Penhale Sands | Cornwall

Location: Penhale Sands   |   Category: Mining Heritage   |   Photograph Added: 28th January 2012 | Photo Reference: 3676

Mining played a big part in the history of this area. Penhale is known to have been at work in 1777 when it produced 41 tons of lead ore, but in common with other mines in this area it is probably much older. In around about 1826 is thought to have stopped working but
it was reopened in 1830, when it only lasted a year due to the low price of lead. Dines records that iron ore was also worked possibly from the Perran Iron Lode. Which the Wheal Golden-Penhale lead lode is thought to intersect with.