Where is this?

Hi Angel
been busy!
Thanks for these pictures!

These buildings are in my earliest memories, and are on a really beautiful coast. What they produced was valued by mediterranean civilisations even in pre christian times.

Hi Guillermo! Good to hear from you.

 

I always find roaming along those cliff tops amongst the ruins is one of the most evocative experiences you can have. The juxtaposition of the wild and rugged coast with the reminders of man's time there is so dramatic.

It's easy to see why authors, artists, playwrights and musicians have all taken their inspiration from there.

 

Hi Guillermo, nice to hear from you!

Same for Tiny and Crag. And yes, everything about this place you said is true! But, come on Crag, name the nearest village to the two buildings we're looking for, or search for it! If you use only this village's name in 'Google Images' the two cliff-edge ruins immediately show up. At the others, just 'Google' ‘‘Francis Poldark died’’ and you know what these buildings were for, that makes it easyer to find the spot....!!

Good luck!
Angel

 

Ola, Guillermo.

Coast of Cornwall. Where, exactly needs more time for research, which I lack tonight. Buenas noches a todos.

 

Angel,

I know exactly where it is as it was one of my childhood holiday haunts. I was trying to steer others into finding it.

I'm struggling to find clues that don't immediately give it away. But for the geologists amongst you, it is the type location for a form of the mineral Cu2(OH)3Cl

 

OK Crag, by knowing the type locality mineral that is named after this place you sure know the place. Although naming the place is what this game is about, giving clues is alright too.

Here you can see how Francis Poldark died (at 5:09 - 6:43). And this one starts with showing a building, just like the lower one we're searching for, in full operation.

Here reissues of the twelve historical novels of the Poldark saga. Third book; ‘‘Cornwall 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes..............’’

Pic's: the type locality mineral Cu2[(OH)3|Cl] and one of it's sources with ± a century time difference. There are horrible real stories about big disasters there...........

Good luck!
Angel

 

The mine in this pair of photos isn't the same as the original question. That lighthouse is a bit round the corner.

 

Right, it's one of the sources of the type locality mineral and is just North of the two cliff-edge ruins we're looking for.

Yes....

 

The lighthouse in your last picture looks like Lizard Point, but about the rest of your puzzle I must say, I have no clue.

The mineral found there is different from the Malachit you have shown, it is Lizardit Mg3[Si2O5](OH)4 also known as Orphit or Serpentstone.

Oh, has F. Poldark anything to do with the Poldice Mine in Gwennap?

The Cornish coast is a very beautiful one, one needs no trip to the Med. when the weather is right.

 

Ah, I found it accidentally reading about Cornish mining! Very interesting , thanks Angel!



Botallack mine.

 

Well done Richard....!!

Crown's Mine Engine Houses near Botallack, Cornwall, UK (50° 8' 34.82" N, 5° 41' 35.43" W) aka 'Botallack Mine'.

The lower building was a pumping engine house and the one just above it was a shaft engine house of this tin, arsenic and copper mine.

This distinctive pair of cliff-edge engine houses was constructed to facilitate mining from the mineral lodes which run out under the Atlantic. They are a fitting testimony to the ingenuity and endeavour of the adventurers and mine workers of the 19th century. This mine was in production from 1721 till 1914.

Botallack is situated in the St Just Mining District, one of the most ancient hard-rock tin and copper mining areas in Cornwall. Here the majority of principal sites lie within a well-defined spectacular coastal belt 3.5 miles long by approximately 1.25 miles wide.

Copper and tin has been won here for countless generations and miners have even sunk shafts and driven levels out deep beneath the ocean bed. These are Cornwalls world famous submarine mines! (UNESCO World Heritage Site) [ 1 ] - [ 2 ]

The type locality mineral Cu2[(OH)3|Cl] = Botallackite.

Post #3758 and #3760 shows the Levant Mine (just north of Botallack mine) and the Pendeen Lighthouse.

There is a nice little cove with a beach just east of Pendeen Lighthouse (link below).

Francis Poldark, he drowned in a flooded mine shaft, was one of the main characters in ‘‘The Poldark Novels’’ from post #3751. And in the BBC TV series of it in 1975 - 1977.

Nice to have you back....!!

Cheers!
Angel

Pics:
- A cliff-edge Cornish mining plant in the days they were fully operational (not the one of this quest, it looks like it's the other side of the Lavant mine on this later photo).
- Michells shaft engine house of East Pool mine, one of the preserved engine houses.
- a Google Maps shot of Pendeen Lighthouse and the cove just east of it (use this link to zoom in or out).

 

Always I have such a good time learning things on this thread among friends.

 

Me too Hoyt!

Look at this man engine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_engine

many of these shaft houses had such a elevator.


Who is willing to do the next one? I have no time to prepare a good one (and less than good is not sufficient).
Maybe in the next days, if you grant me that.

 

That is some pretty cool stuff, A1.

 

Ey,
less than that is not what we assume..............

anyone????


I am sailing the southern Med. there is no daily connection.

Regards
Richard