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Dwayne Dibbley
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14 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Engine_shaft_1.JPG

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stuey
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14 years ago

There is an adit which involves getting very very wet in icy water and it goes a small bit to a collapsed stope. The ground is crap and most features are run in.

Not worth getting wet for, unless you want it on your underground CV.

Dwayne Dibbley
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14 years ago

Stuey, are you talking about the lower adit of the higher one, i have been in the higher one and was only welly deep and went for 100+m past a sealed adit shaft, then i had to crawl on hands and knees where it then opened out it to a flooded stope?

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stuey
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14 years ago

The one with the duck at the start, it was the most extensive on in the area.

Alasdair Neill
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14 years ago

All the shafts last time I looked were blocked, many had been sealed by placing a large boulder in at level of solid rock. There have been odd rumours of shafts opening up, but none substantiated that I am aware of.
I think if you want more information most people active in the area will be reluctant to give it in an open access site such as this, for very obvious reasons, but if you contact any of the groups active in the area privately there would be a lot more information on what is accessible than can be given here.

Dwayne Dibbley
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14 years ago

Cheers guys for the info

Kernow Tim
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14 years ago

I visited the site late last year and the upper adit (two brothers) is now flooded due to the run up being choked due to bog-weeds of various descriptions (botany not my strong point) - as previously stated it's not that interesting any way. The lower adit (deep) is blocked after about 30ft. There are several surface features of interest though if you are into that sort of thing, a couple of wheelpits (one set in a collapsed shaft the tail race being out through deep adit) a couple of long runs of granite flat-rod supports from the wheelpits (one running all the way over to the east side of the hill), six stamping mill sites, the remains of a smelting house and at least three lodes can be traced via collapsed shafts, shallow openworks and lode-back pits. Fascinating.