West Wheal Owles from Wheal Edward Tank Top

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Wheal Owles Mine, pronounced 'Oals' sits dramatically on the cliffs of the north coast of Cornwall in the St. Just mining area of north Penwith. The mine is thought to have been an amalgamation of several smaller and more ancient mines. To the southwest lies the area worked by Boswedden Mine whilst to the northeast lies the sett of Botallack Mines including the Crowns Mine. There is known to have been a mine in this general area from the 1700's but Wheal Owles' best years were during the decade 1860-70.
Any prosperity for Wheal Owles was relatively short lived and as metal prices fell in the 1870's, due largely to tin discoveries in Australia and also the Great Flat Lode south of Carn Brea Hill in the Camborne-Redruth Area.
West Wheal Owles as this section became known continued working until one fateful day in January 1893. About 40 miners were working as a 'pare' or team in the undersea levels of Wheal Owles and some 400 feet below adit level accidentally holed into the flood...

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