East Pool mine

East Pool mine, was a metalliferous mine in the Camborne and Redruth mining vicinity, simply east of the village of Pool in Cornwall, England. Worked from the early 18th century until 1945, first for copper and later tin, it was very worthwhile for tons of its life. Today the site has two preserved beam engines and is part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site. The united states of america rock on the mine is metamorphosed killas and greenstone overlying the Carn Brea granite. The many lodes at the sett are all crossed by using numerous elvan dykes.

The mine's primary produce turned into copper and later tin, arsenic and wolframite, also small quantities of the ores of bismuth, cobalt and uranium. East Pool mine commenced out inside the early 18th century as a copper mine referred to as "Pool Old Bal". The land beneath which it became allowed to mine was leased from the Basset own family and it generated sufficient money for that circle of relatives to build their usa house at Tehidy. The mine's adit was 32 fathoms beneath floor and mining had taken area 16 fathoms beneath this, the workings being drained through a flatrod machine powered by means of a water wheel south of Pool village. This phase of mining ceased in 1784.