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The
Picture below is a close up taken from a photograph taken from Caradon
& Looe
The Canal, Railways and Mines by Michael Messenger Click on the photograph for a wider view. The picture below shows the stamps engine with its flywheel driving a crusher on the left and the set of stamps on the right. The engine was of 28 inch diameter and powered a 24 head of stamps, a tramway fed ore in from the left of the picture and the tramway in the foreground transported the crushed ore to the dressing shed higher up the valley. The sweep rod and beam are lost in a motion blur indicating that the stamps are hard at work at the time of the photograph. |
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South Caradon's ore did not lend itself well to stamping being very friable. Hand picking and sorting would have been used to reduce the amount of rock being fed to the stamps. Stamps when in operation gave out a tremendous din and the Seaton valley would have been echoing with their noise at the time of this photograph. |
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Although
the site appears to be freely accessible to the public it is on private
land and no formal right of ways exist.
Like all mine sites dangers exist, many hidden. This web site is aimed as a resource to those using the public right of way and cannnot encourage visitors to the mine workings itself. |