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Buildings and structures associated with the nineteenth-century extraction and processing of lead ore....
Cornish Mines and Engines in Pool, Cornwall has beam engines and industrial heritage discovery centre. Cornwall's engine houses are dramatic reminders of the time when the county was a powerhouse of tin, copper and china clay mining. These two great ...
Levant Mine and Beam Engine in Pendeen, Cornwall is a working steam-powered beam engine. In its tiny engine house perched on the cliff edge, the famous Levant beam engine is steaming again after 60 idle years. The sight, sounds and smells of this 166...
As you walk the gently rising mine track from just outside Braithwaite village, it is hard to believe that this beautiful area of the Lake District fells was once the backdrop to a mining industry. Hugging the side of the fell with the winding beck b...
Gold mines in use from Roman times to the 20th century. These unique gold mines are set amid wooded hillsides overlooking the beautiful Cothi Valley. The Romans who exploited the site almost 2,000 years ago left behind a complex of pits, channels, ad...
Grime's Graves is the only Neolithic flint mine open to visitors in Britain. A grassy lunar landscape of over 400 shafts, pits, quarries and spoil dumps, they were first named Grim's Graves - meaning the pagan god Grim's quarries, or 'the Devil's hol...
A visit to Great Orme Mines in llandudno, North Wales, is both an enjoyable and educational experience which can be enjoyed by children and adults of all ages. Walking through tunnels mined out over 3,500 years ago gives visitors a feel for the harsh...
Sygun Copper Mine is one of the wonders of Wales - a remarkable and impressive example of how our precious industrial heritage can be reclaimed, restored and transformed into an outstanding family attraction.
The mine, a unique modern day reminder...
This excursion into the subterranean world provides a wonderful insight into the history of the mine and allows you to grasp the immense scale of our operations and those of our forebears. There are more than eleven miles of tunnels in all though you...
In the Poldark Mines in Cornwall you can follow in the footsteps of the 18th Century Cornish tin miners on the most atmospheric tour in britain....
Geevor Tin Mine is the largest preserved mining site in the UK. It tells of the mining history and brings it to life. Until 1990 Geevor was a working mine, now it is a museum with many surface buildings and a guided underground tour that will take yo...
Birkhill Fireclay Mine is best visited as part of the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway experience, where guides will take visitors on a 45-minute tour from Birkhill Station platform into the underground workings of the mine.
Designed to give visitors...
From here you can find out more about Nenthead Mines, a museum dedicated to both showing and telling the 'story' of the mineral mining past of the North Pennines. Prepare to launch on a voyage of discovery at Nenthead Mines, learning more about the p...
The Florence Mine is the last working iron ore mine in Europe, part of the rich mining history of West Cumbria. The rich iron ore deposits, known as haematite, are found in abundance in the limestone layers of West Cumbria. The red ore is the distinc...
Magpie Mine stands one third of a mile south of the village of Sheldon, from where it can be seen standing darkly silhouetted against the skyline. It is about 1050 feet above sea level. Footpaths approach it both from Sheldon and the Monyash to Ashfo...
Old lead and fluorspar workings reconstructed as in the 1920s and 1930s with tracks, tubs, electric lighting and exhibits still being developed along with a dressing plant....
For thousands of years iron ore has been mined at Clearwell Caves. You can still meet a Free Miner here; men whose ancient birthright entitles them to dig for minerals within the Hundred of St Briavels and the Royal Forest of Dean.
Clearwell Caves...
The Llywernog Silver-Lead Mine, Silver Mountain Experience has been improved and now includes a longer and more dramatic themed underground tour, new cafe and retail shop, a water-play area for children with panning and gem jigging, woods full of myt...
The first in Wales. Award winning from 1976. It's located in the Afan Valley only six miles from the town of Port Talbot, among beautiful hills where men once tunnelled for coal. They hacked away to fill the trams hauled by horses to daylight. Then f...
