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Copper Mine??
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06/29/2015 11:27 AM
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We have never visited the Copper Mine on Tortola. Is it worth a view? Is there a good place to moor?
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Re: Copper Mine??
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06/29/2015 11:32 AM
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shererr said: We have never visited the Copper Mine on Tortola. Is it worth a view? Is there a good place to moor? Interesting.....I've never heard of a copper mine on Tortola....will be interested to see the responses. There is one on Virgin Gorda and I wouldn't go there by boat....we drive there. For me, it is worth the drive and a stop at the Mine Shaft Cafe'
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Re: Copper Mine??
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06/29/2015 12:35 PM
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Thanks everyone. We'll give it a try.
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Re: Copper Mine??
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06/29/2015 01:20 PM
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Best to stop at Leverick and rent a car to explore. The mine site is definitely worth the visit. In the tailings you can still find bits of blue/green malachite and silver molybdenite.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain
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Re: Copper Mine??
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06/30/2015 10:32 PM
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Maria_and_Steve said:It is only about 3 miles from Spanish Town if you want to walk or run there. There is also a geocache among the ruins Ha Ha that's a good one. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> Enjoy!
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Re: Copper Mine??
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07/02/2015 12:28 PM
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Yes. Cornwall was known for its hard rock miners. It took a special kind of miner to crawl half a mile under the ocean in a 4' diameter tunnel lit with candles. The rock formation just off shore shows the direction of the seams that the copper ore formed in. The mine tunnels followed those seams out under the ocean.
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Re: Copper Mine??
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07/02/2015 12:52 PM
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fcrouch said: And on the current Masterpiece Classic - Poldark, set in Cornwall, England....the mine ruin looks very much like the ruin on VG - that was my daughter's first comment when she saw it on the TV. And I believe the miners on VG came from Cornwall? Certainly did. See my earlier post. There are many mines like the VG one in Cornwall and reputedly, every mine in the world had/has a Cornishman at the bottom of it. So great were their mining skills. PS. My husband is Cornish and I lived there for over 20 years. A beautiful area.
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Re: Copper Mine??
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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.'"
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Re: Copper Mine??
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07/05/2015 08:16 AM
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We're Copper Mine fans. Very cool setting, interesting history and we've never seen it crowded. I think the walk from town would be a bit dodgy - hot, exposed and uncomfortably close traffic. The Lifeworks International program usually brings their kids in their service camp program by the Copper Mine park for a cleanup day. Looks like the two boats in their first session came by recently. A couple of dozen teenagers can clean up a beach pretty fast. The eastern exposure here collects a lot of wind blown trash from the Atlantic. My daughter was in the program last summer and she said they were filling a dozen contractor bags in a few hours with mostly plastic items. Clean beach, until the wind blows again. http://lifeworks-international.com/wp/blogs/category/lwbvi1-boat1/page/3/Cheers, RickG
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