Levant Mine
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Submarine workings were extended up to
1.5km from the cliffs to a depth of over 600m below the sea-bed.
The engine houses are next to the principal extraction shaft (Skip
Shaft). The smaller (restored) engine house contains an all-indoor
beam-whim, the oldest surviving Cornish engine (1840) still in its
original house. Remarkably it has been brought back to work under
steam by a dedicated team of volunteers. The larger pumping engine
house which served the Engine Shaft dates from 1835. Nearby are
two examples of circular gunpowder magazines.
Levant Mine (whim engine house 1840, pumping engine house 1835,
Listed Grade II). Levant produced £200,000 worth of high-grade
copper-ore in the first ten years of working. One hundred years
later it was the last of the larger copper mines to close, having
also been rich in tin.
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