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High on the hill slope SE of the village of Carnkie is the engine house (to the right) and Frue Vanner house of Wheel Basset Mine.

Here can be seen the well preserved remains of the vanner house built in 1908, which contained shaking tables known as 'Frue Vanners' that were used to separate heavier black tin particles from lighter waste in the crushed ore. The concrete dates from 1938 when ore dressing equipment was installed to reprocess the waste burrows nearby. The engine house was then used as an ore bin and in front Californian stamps stood where previously the engine's crankshafts and flywheels had been.

The mine stack in the background is thought to have belonged to an arsenic calciner, but there is longer any sign of an associated labyrinth collector flue.