Wheal Coates Cornwall 365
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Wheal Coates in the Setting Sun
Place: »Wheal Coates
Category: »Mining Heritage
About: Wheal Coates looks beautiful today especially in the setting sun but it is doubtful if the miners who worked here gave any consideration to the rugged terrain and nearby beach.
Photograph Added: 22nd April 2008
Picturesque Wheal Coates
Place: »Wheal Coates
Category: »Mining Heritage
About: Wheal Coates is a picturesque mine near Chapel Porth, St Agnes and is today preserved and managed by the National Trust. This mine features on many picture postcards of the region and in the evening glow its not difficult to see why.
Photograph Added: 20th April 2008
Towanroath
Place: »Wheal Coates
Category: »World Heritage Sites
About: The Towanroath Shaft engine house at Wheal Coates is one of Cornwall's instantly recognisable landmarks. Many people walking the coast path must wonder at the ingenuity of the people who were able to build such a magnificent structure in this locati......
Photograph Added: 19th June 2007
Break In The Clouds
Place: »Wheal Coates
Category: »Mining Heritage
About: Late evening light on the engine house at Towanroath Shaft engine house Wheal Coates. The heavy rain clouds parted just enough to illuminate the engine house resulting in the strange colours.
Photograph Added: 15th June 2007
Towanroath
Place: »Wheal Coates
Category: »Mining Heritage
About: Towanroath Shaft engine house at Wheal Coates.
Photograph Added: 21st February 2006
Wheal Coates
Place: »Wheal Coates
Category: »Mining Heritage
About: The area around Wheal Coates is crisscrossed with footpaths allowing the visitor to see all the different parts of the mine.
Photograph Added: 20th February 2006
About Wheal Coates Cornwall.
Wheal Coates – St. Agnes
The engine house that stands beside Towanroath Shaft is in a spectacular setting as it lies half way down the cliff between St. Agnes and Chapel Porth and makes a wonderful photograph or indeed a painting.
At low tide it is possible to access part of the mine through a large cave alog the beach near Chapel Porth. Originally the mine workings went right down to the sea and it is possible to hear the waves crashing against the rocks through a grate covering the shaft. Towanroath vugga (cave) is partly a natural sea cave and also a honeycomb of old excavation and at the back of the sea cave is a mine drainage adit. Chambers English Dictionary defines a vug as “a Cornish miners name for a cavity in a rock”
Numerous lodes at Wheal Coates are in the granite intrusions but the Towanroath lode is found in the killas between the granite and the cliffs. The mine was not very prolific in the production of copper or tin and it closed in 1889 although several attempts were made to reopen it.
On the top of the cliffs are the houses for winding and stamps engines the Towanroath pumping engine was built 1872 and drained the mine from the adjacent 600feet deep Towanroath shaft. The Whim engine house was built in 1880 and the Stamps and Whim Engine Houses were built between.1882-3. The Calciner built in 1910 -13 is a rare double bayed calciner which roasted tin concentrate to drive off unwanted impurities including arsenic. One of the ruins on the cliff top is a square well preserved engine pond that is situated on the south side of the mine buildings. It is possible to see the exit sluice in the north-west corner and the water to supply the engines and stamps was pumped up from an adit shaft which is no longer visible.
Today the National Trust maintains the engine houses and other buildings and there are several useful information boards with useful site plans etc. Parking is available on the cliff top and at low it is possible to park at Chapel Porth and then walk along the beach.
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