Launder to Tolvadden mine?

I collect postcards, this one shows a part of my bit of Cornwall, the view of Marazion looking east from the Beacon, the big house is now Chymorvah Hotel recently in the news when the couple who run it turned away a gay couple! The gays had the backing (financial) of the gay community, the couple who run the hotel only their savings! The "launder" could just be a strip of vegetation and some conveniently placed telegraph poles! (I remember when I worked on the Mount, we wondered what the strip of red was in a field out this way, Lady St Levan told us it was red Gladioli!)
I dunno where they got their water from, altho its raining today the area is generally devoid of streams (I often wonder what our landscape would have looked like without mining to drain it!) Even if they needed no water for processing (being done elsewhere) they woulda needed some for the steam pumping engine (I have found locally that there were often "low bits" associated with shafts, were they crude "hot wells" for the water for the engines?)
I have no idea who did the pic, it may be dated about 1930. Friths have one dated 1960 which shows none of this.
I used to do the garden to St Anthony's House, next to the Cemetery which is just below the site of Tolavadden mine and I looked in Dines for details years ago. In fact there is a westwards extension of the mine to a shaft just in front of St Anthony's house (and possibly beyond, beneath the present council estate?!) Gary Clemo rents this from St Aubyn Estates and spoils the view from the house!
Dunno who else to ask, what do you think?

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This photograph was uploaded October 30^th 2020 by Dave43.

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