The stamps engine house

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The photograph on this page of The stamps engine house by Richard Law as part of the Geograph project.

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The stamps engine house

Image: © Richard Law Taken: 16 Sep 2012

The remains of the engine house that ran the tin stamps at Wheal Peevor; the stamps, as the name suggests, were essentially ore crushers, breaking relatively small lumps of ore into finer material (stamp sand) ready for processing in the nearby buddles Image It originally housed a 36" rotative beam engine, installed in 1876, but when the mine was re-activated in 1911, alterations were made; these included the installation of a gas-oil powered engine which ran more equipment, including a machine of 20 Californian stamps.

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Image Location

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50.253369
Longitude
-5.217734