Geology, rocks, minerals

Dig down to uncover where it all began
Mining processes

Follow the ore from the rock to railway
The infrastructure to support mining processes

See how mining shaped lives and landscapes
Mining characters and society

Look into the lives of real Cornish miners
Did you know?
Driving development
The thousands of ordinary Cornish men, women and children who worked at the mines helped produce the industrial metals which drove Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
The spread of Cornish mining around the globe

Take a trip with mining machinery and manpower
Inventions and technological advances
