The East Cornwall branch visit 'over the boarder' to Kelly Mine on the eastern outskirts of Dartmoor was one to remember. The Kelly Mine Preservation Society gave our members an excellent tour of their fascinating site, many thanks guys. The mine provides a rare opportunity to see a small scale mine dressing floors in action, from shaft head to dispatch or ore, an opportunity really assists in interpreting mine sites all over Cornwall.
Amongst the many things seen, packed in this small site were a head frame, tramway network, incline plane, friction drive winch, Blackstone Oil engine, Turgo water turbine, water wheels, stamps, washing frames, drying floors, and packing plant.
Unfortunately BlogSpot is currently failing to upload photographs. Therefore if you wish to see a photograph of the visit, pop across to the Trevithick Society's face book page, or Navsbooks blog.
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