Carn Brea Tin and
Copper mining complex. Carn Brea was the most important and complex of the
mining districts in Cornwall and West Devon, containing the majority of its
most significant mines and key industrial enterprise. It was the home and
workplace of many of the key figures in the development of mining and allied
technologies and witnessed the most widespread urbanisation of what had
historically been a rural landscape
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