A miner’s dial, used for underground and surface surveying. Consisting of a stand compass, 3 levelling bubbles, cover for compass face, cross-hair sight and plumb line. Inscribed on the compass dial and semi-circle: William Wilton, St. Day, Camborne.

Group of miners before leaving for South Africa, 1890. 

Engine pump at Wheal Agar, Illogan.

A brass pestle and mortar used to check the quality of ore (assaying) in the Assaying Office at South Condurrow Mine, Troon, Cornwall.

Processed copper from Dolcoath Mine and tin from South Crofty Mine.

Men using high-pressure jets of water to blast down rocks at Ross Gold Fields, South Westland, New Zealand during the 1860s West Coast Gold Rush.

Double-decker gig at the 440 fathom level in Dolcoath Mine, Camborne, 1903.

Miners using a Holman drill. Holman Brothers Ltd. was a successful company based in Camborne that produced drills used for mining worldwide.

The interior of the museum at the Camborne School of Mines, 1900.

Carting borax from Sulphur Bank Mine and Borax Lake, Death Valley, California. In 1881, a cave-in killed 5 miners from Cornwall.

Waste oil from ships at Falmouth ablaze in an old shaft at Gwennap United Mines. Sunday 27th June 1937.

Model of a Cornish beam engine used to pump water out of mines.