Random Mine of the Day : Wheal Benny: a water-powered tin mine

Overgrown mines are really hard to photograph. It's strange: you can see the outlines of quite a lot of the buildings quite clearly under the ivy in real life, but somehow in a photo all you get is a blob even if it's all in focus.  According to the Heritage Gateway, there's a chimney for an arsenic calcining plant in here somewhere, but I have yet to spot it.  It's probably hiding, disguised as a tree.



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