Engine houses at Wheal Hearle
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Image: © Rude Health Taken: 7 May 2015
East Boscaswell also known as Wheal Hearle and records show that the mine started work in the mid 1850's and shares in Wheal Hearle were made available to purchase just five years later. Equipped with a 30-inch pumping engine and a 10-inch winder the mine produced copper in the 1860's and tin between 1861-77. The main shafts were known as Borlase Engine Shaft working on a section of Bill Lode and Skip shaft, sunk about 1863.