Wheal Basset Stamps
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Wheal Basset Stamps by Pete Cruse as part of the Geograph project.
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Wheal Basset Stamps
Image: © Pete Cruse Taken: 4 Dec 2021
Part of the great flat lode, this image is of the old Wheal Basset Stamps buildings where mineral ore was extracted from the adjacent mines. Whereupon the ore is crushed, stamped, extracting and refining the raw minerals. In the image, the foreground is the old mine workings, the mine workings on the horizon and to the right is also part of the Basset mines (image of which, see Image) The green field's to the left is the Wheal Buller and currently riding stables
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Image Location
Latitude
50.215955
Longitude
-5.240029