If it was my project, I'd probably haul the crap out of the shaft, pull the cage up, have the junk out, have the loose hung up stuff out, keep the rails in place. I'd leave the solid features alone.

There are some good accidents recorded where people are working in shafts and have been hit by falling "stuff", despite how well it's been slung. I'd start at the top and work down and never be below anything being hoisted (which is a hassle)

Great pics guys

Thanks for going down my mine yesterday !!!

Yes think well will strat hauling the crap out but that cage seem pretty stuck, got a 200m winch A&P dockyard has kindly will lend me any time i need it,

Im praying that water isnt just below this and we can get to a level esp as the air is so clean,

Again thanks so much, hope you liked the securing chains to hold the headgear up!!!

What the next plan then, and also how was the climb back up ?

Climb was nothing, we did an 80m one last week! The shaft is a nice drop, but as Stu says, you are going to need to work down, moving the suspended junk out of the way piece by piece. The elevator might just lift out, we moved some stuff off it to get a pic! If you had one man on a winch then you may be able to have him grab a piece each time and then get lifted back out with it. The big gas canisters (there are at least two) will be a pain though.

Think this project is going to be better than wheal pointless ??

of course without 23m to invest LOL

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Does anyone have a set of plans to the underground workings ? as I am might beable to get my hands on some.

Any idea who owns the mineral rights in this area ?

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Yes that woudl be great if you could

Mineral rights are all owned by the crown

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Stopped by there today to have a peer at the site through the gate. Looking much better than the last time I was up there last year. Very glad to see it getting the attention it deserves.

I was really expecting the air to be very bad indeed, hence we had a lamp on about a 10ft bit of rope. It was very clear indeed, which is odd. Blind shafts with "stuff that likes oxygen" usually results in people being in a bit of a muddle at the bottom. It was perfectly clear.

I'm a bit paranoid about dodgy air recently, as we had a bit of an "exciting time" a few weeks ago. I can't be putting myself through that again for a while.

I'm up for slinging some stuff. The SRT practice will come in handy.

I was wondering, looking at the chains, whether it would be possible to strap everything together and "tip" the headgear so it can be repaired and then tip it the other way. This would involve gravity less!

The question is, how easy would it be to pump it out? The pipes are small bore, which suggests that it wasn't wet. You could rig up a big diesel generator running on used engine oil from local garages/scrapyards and then get the mother of all pumps. I'm sure with your talent of getting people mobilised, it's not beyond your capabilities.

If it was my project, it would be rude not to attempt pumping it. Obviously, the yoghurt weavers would have a fit!

is the level below adit then?if not where you gonna pump your water to? might be dewatering half of county

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The adit is blocked if I remember rightly. The workings around there are pretty well separated and weren't huge. The water was piped "somewhere" presumably by a pipe which still exists.

I've read something somewhere about some people in the 60's partially unwatering a St Just mine with some lashed up pumping gear and getting it down a fair way.

I fully expect to get the junk out of the shaft and there to be no levels at all. However, rigging up some pumps would possibly reveal something. It should go down pretty quickly until you hit the level of something serious. The soil isn't that thick there, neither is the rock hugely porous (looking at things I've seen in the area)

hopefully something there worth seeing, bit of fun doin the work i bet

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yes awesome

i dont know about the practicalities of the site but managed t drain a lot of water from penlee quarry using a vacuum tanker, we set up so it acted like a syphon and required now powering, that moved a hell of a lot of water

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Re the historical info. don't trust any of the "standard" sources which often confuse it with Wheal Conord in Devon. The Wheal Concord Silver... Co. was almost certainly referring to the latter. Have seen a number of original accounts about driving the County Adit into the site which need to go back to at some stage. Believe there are MRO plans from the last working but havn't seen these as yet.
Mineral Rights in this area were always historically owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, the Crown have very little in Devon & Cornwall apart from rights to Royal metals & to minerals offshore from Low Water Mark.