BTW, the remains of the 40" cylinder walking beam engine are on the beach just north of the mine. It was the first high pressure steam engine build by Perran Foundry of Cornwall.

The 31 Cornish miners did the engineering and worked the mine faces. 140 Virgin Gordans did the hauling and lifting. There is a saying that "the Cornishmen 'knew better than anyone how to break rock, how to timber bad ground, and how to make the other fellow shovel it, tram it and hoist it.'"

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain