page_title: Camborne
section_title: Mining
hierarchical_section_title: Camborne / History / Mining
caption_attribution_description: The heart of the Cornish tin-mining district, looking from Dolcoath Mine towards Redruth (on an unusually smoke-free day)
context_page_description: Camborne is a town in Cornwall, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 20,845. The northern edge of the parish includes a section of the South West Coast Path, Hell's Mouth and Deadman's Cove.
  Camborne was formerly one of the richest tin mining areas in the world and home to the Camborne School of Mines.
context_section_description: Camborne is best known as a centre for the former Cornish tin and copper mining industry, having its working heyday during the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Camborne was just a village until transformed by the mining boom which began in the late 18th century and saw the Camborne and Redruth district become the richest mining area in the world. Although a considerable number of ruinous stacks and engine houses remain, they cannot begin to convey the scenes of 150 years ago when scores of mines transfigured the landscape.
  Dolcoath Mine, (English: Old Ground Mine), the 'Queen of Cornish Mines' was, at a depth of 3,500 feet (1,067 m), for many years the deepest mine in the world, not to mention one of the oldest before its closure in 1921. The last working tin mine in Europe, South Crofty, which closed in 1998, is also to be found in Camborne.
caption: View east from Dolcoath Mine, 1893
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