A number of images relating to mining in Cornwall dating from around 1927.mining, cornish, cornish mining, underground workings, underground mining, cornish miner, cornwall, child labourers, candles, pick, tools

Magdala cum Moonlight Mine c1895. Showing wooden tanks and woodheap. Directors on left. The fifth from left tall man is Thomas Kinsella. A horse and dray would go up this ramp and take the crushed sand to the cyanide vats. To load drays with sand a horse would walk under a chute that was at the end of the conveyor belt and when sand was shoveled onto the conveyor, a dray could be loaded in 12 seconds.B/W Mr. Thomas Kinsella and gentlemen with young child leaning on rails overlooking wood stacks with three workers seated. Wooden vats, buildings. Three people by two horse buggy. labourer standing behind buggy.stawell gold mining