The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Mulberry Mine

Lanivet (Settlement), Cornwall (County [UK]), England


View Larger MapDescription of institution: A huge opencast work on a tin stockworks on Mulberry Hill, currently up to 100ft deep and 700ft long, which can be descended at the SE end with care. The ore is in minute cracks less than a foot apart and yielded 6lb of black tin per ton. URL:https://www.mindat.org/loc-1020.html