300ft Deep Mine Shaft Opens Just Yards From Cornwall Home
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Are the police looking into it?
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The timber sollar has rotted away to nothing and just fallen in on its self. This would have been the original cap when the mine closed, which got covered in debris and forgotten about!
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You can tell by how square it is, hand dug shafts are more rounded and jagged. A biG square shaft like this is a hauling shaft, it may have had a man lift in it too. It would have been dug late 1880s with steam drills and blasting.
Anything hand dug would be pre 1880, very easy to distinguish between hand dug and machine. They literally made it as small as possible to reduce labour costs. Usually coffin shaped and barely big enough to stoop through.
Shafts like this were often made on failing mines to impress share holders and convince them to invest more money because it looked spectacular....
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Are you working on this? I thought it would have been done by now, but I guess it took a while to clear the shafts of all the cables etc. It's still a bit of a mind **** to think of all those miles of roadways and equipment just left down there, unlikely ever to be seen again.
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Are you working on this? I thought it would have been done by now, but I guess it took a while to clear the shafts of all the cables etc. It's still a bit of a mind **** to think of all those miles of roadways and equipment just left down there, unlikely ever to be seen again.
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Not me but one of my mates has just finished there. I think the final pour went in on Tuesday. I agree about all the equipment, there are literally hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of gear down all the mines that have closed around here. Apparently it isn't economically viable to dismantle and retrieve it, seems a real waste to me
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Just had a survey done for the land where we are building (near Hayle, so not as full of mines as Scorrier), but I think we need another one for shafts. Apparently the shaft survey is just a database/map check to see if there are any shafts listed there. The problem with that is there are plenty of service shafts and vents that aren't on the lists.
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Just had a survey done for the land where we are building (near Hayle, so not as full of mines as Scorrier), but I think we need another one for shafts. Apparently the shaft survey is just a database/map check to see if there are any shafts listed there. The problem with that is there are plenty of service shafts and vents that aren't on the lists.
And plenty that are pre-regulation, meaning they were never submitted to plan anyway!
Sounds like you need some drilling work done
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Yeah, might be worth doing it. Only thing is that it's family land (200 years+) and there has been no down shafts there in that time. There might be cross shafts, but they will be x00ft down and it's next to my parents house, which has never had any issues. The neighbours built their place in the 70s, not sure if they would have had the surveys done back then.
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This is quite useful to see what area not to buy a house in.
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/home.html
http://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/coalauthority/home.html
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