Exploring deep into Tresavean Copper mine, Cornwalls second deepest mine. 

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It’s not a very long drop down if that makes you feel any better 🤣

460 fathoms is a long way down :o)

Haha plenty more videos for you to watch on my channel 🙂

Quite a walk after a long hard day !! 😬

If I'd of been there I would of said same thing only difference. Instead of climbing it I'd of said fook that 😆

Wayne Sarah Burns I’ve done a bit of srt, but still crap myself every time.

We are on the south side of Carn Brea and not long had a engine shaft capped in the garden. Would be cool to know what's under our feet! Lol

@@waynesarahburns3871 Yes, could be a large mine with loads of historic features under there.

Cheers Charlie. It’s a bit of an ongoing battle there with the council who often weld the bars back in. For a long time we had bars which bolt in which was the best option (kids don’t tend to carry spanner’s around to gain access) but I can see why they do seal it up as it’s a big dangerous hole. It’s a shame they can’t fit a nice hatch with a combination lock or similar for those suitably qualified/experienced.

@@BenoCam is there no such thing as a proper mining exploration group? Of all counties... Well, if you ever want an eager trainee...!?

Haha thank you Tom

Cheers Mike. It’s hard getting a balance of story, good visuals and not going too long. Most mine videos I have watched are often too long. I try to trim mine down as much as I possibly can 😬

Cheers Carol 👍

Ah I think maybe I misread it and Tresavean was the second deepest at the time of operating !

It probably was, it may also have the second deepest shaft but not sure. Enjoy your exploring

Haha thanks . More on the way ! 🙂

Haha thank you glad you enjoyed

Believe it or not it can be really difficult trying to get some good mining footage without there being any bad language. Very often there’s just too many in there to try and edit out 🤣

@@BenoCam I read an academic study that proclaimed bad language was a sign of intelligence. On that basis Im a genius-

Tony Fisher not that long, maybe 10 minutes? 15 mins tops

@@BenoCam thats a solid workout

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It’s tony!

Y’all have bollocks the size of watermelons 🤜🤛

Not in the one we dropped. It’s had a big collapse about 50m below where we came off at the level .

Well when a lot of them closed it was not a good time for mining, metal prices were down so there were no other local mines looking to expand that would be interesting in buying it. Also it’s only really been in real overly recent years that scrap metal has been valuable. Even back to the 90s most people just disposed of scrap metal which ever way convenient rather than taking it to be recycled and for mines this usually just meant leaving it in place. If you think of the labour cost- man hours and effort of getting the rail track and carts out it was probably just as cost effective to buy new if that was required elsewhere. Especially deeper down in the mines and further away from the access shafts. You can bet that all these mines are still full of metal artefacts deep down below the water table which will probably never be seen again but then the way things are going who knows! They are regularly talking about de watering Crofty and re working it.

Cornwall has a growing population of mine police and older “armchair explorers” who claim to be mine explorers but actually they dont leave the house they just explore them on the internet 🤣 oh and lot of people who are jealous that we get quite a few views.

@@BenoCam they sound like a bunch of tusses to me, expecialy the mine police

nearly 800 metre, for the French in the audience.

@@gramursowanfaborden5820 for the French and 96% of the other countries on earth ;-)

Well I do know who cut it 🤣 so we weren’t the first but we were the first to film it. And I believe the council have welded it up again now ☹️

@@BenoCam I'm from Hampshire although I lived in st anns Chapel Cornwall for 5 ish years, there was a track that led out to an old mining area at Hingston.. I knew nothing about the cornish mines at the time and was just exploring on my own.. I was intrigued by these pockets of area with a little fence round a hole so I climbed over to take a look.. I saw a hole descending way into the ground so I picked up a stone and dropped it in.. when I heard how long it took to reach the bottom it made me go all dizzy knowing I was 2 foot away from certain death so I hopped out pretty quick 😄

there are examples of wolframite and pitchblende from various sites, this as well as lead galena and the radon from the granite. i believe natural background radiation is higher in Cornwall than anywhere else in Europe, nearly 8msv per year, enough to make cosmic radiation statistically insignificant. the Cornish miners were ahead of the trend when it came to ventilation, that's what all the freestanding stacks you might see here are for, often mistaken for chimneys, they are to create a passive draught by faster wind at the higher altitude creating a venturi and pulling old air out of the mine, creating an inward draught from ground level shafts and portals. there is no radon or heightened background radiation on the end of the Lizard peninsula due to it's differing geology, consisting almost entirely of serpentite and devonian sandstone (yellow elvan), there is, however, a notable presence of exposed asbestos.

Philip Squire try to but not always. Depends where we are though. Anywhere near public footpaths then yes !

You wouldn’t have got far with it... it’s more like a paste... it quickly falls to bits when you touch it. Much like a cave formed stalagmite etc

@@BenoCam ohh i didn't know it was a paste thank you for letting me know

Ooo I don’t actually know I will try to find out !

Haha people seem to prefer the voice overs with talking but I can see a nice music one coming along sometime soon 🙂

And he laughed about it.sooo much nope

Wrong with who ?!

This looks like fun, he clearly knew what he was doing he wasn’t being stupid, if I wasn’t so claustrophobic I would have happily went down there with them given the chance

nothing. we haven't had a mine explorer die or even go missing underground in Cornwall for my whole living memory. the people who do not know what they are doing rightfully stay well away. one walker unsuspectedly fell down an open shaft in 2017 and fell 100 feet, he survived with a few broken bones, they will teach him to heed the warnings... stick to the paths!