Phoenix United Mine Ruins on Bodmin Moor

by Richard Brookes

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Phoenix United Mine Ruins on Bodmin Moor

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Richard Brookes

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The distant enigmatic ruins of the Prince of Wales engine house and derelict buildings of the Phoenix United copper and tin mine near the village of Minions, Bodmin Moor in Cornwall not far from Liskeard. First mined from 1836, possibly earlier, it employed up to 600 workers until its closure in 1914. Ore was transported using the now dismantled Liskeard and Caradon railway. The area is a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) as the heavy metals contained in the spoil from the mine has attracted rare species of moss and lichen. Apparently it is one of only two sites in the world where Cornish path moss (Ditrichum cornubicum) grows. Image taken looking east from atop the Bronze age Rillaton Barrow (burial mound) in August.

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December 21st, 2016

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