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On the lower slopes of Carn Brea just north of the village is the tall engine house and separate stack of a 40 inch stamps engine built by Tuckingmill Foundry, Camborne in 1875 to alleviate the mine's previously inadequate stamping capacity. The stamps engine house stands above one of the finest surviving 19th century dressing floors in Cornwall where the ore was concentrated.

This is a general view looking west, showing the stamps engine house, vanner house, Brunton arsenic calciners, and ore dressing floor containing both concave and convex buddles.

In the top left corner can be seen Lyle's engine house which once contained an 80 inch pumping engine - erected about 1880 and a much smaller house which contained a 27 inch winding engine also erected in 1880.

The dense vegetation that now surrounds the site conceals the location of much more associated ore processing facilities - including settling tanks, rag (or rack) frames and round frames etc. All of which would have been a familiar sight to any Cornish miner a century ago!