Cornwall - Engine houses / Mine Buildings
Higher Bal / Higher Levant - 1 (S12)
Higher Bal (Higher Levant Mine) is a short distance from the coast -
adjacent to the road that leads to the NT Car Park at Levant.
The mine at Guide’s Shaft, was part of the former Spearne Consols sett , incorporated into Levant in 1880.
The engine house (1887) contained a 35-inch rotative engine for pumping water
and driving two winding drums for hoisting.
The impressive retaining wall has V-notches - ore-passes - chutes down which ore was tipped into carts
that carried it to the stamps near the coast path .
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Location - North of St Just in section - 12
Ref: 585
Date: 23/11/2014
Location: SW 3706.3404