Botallack

Botallack is the name of a famous mine on the west coast of Cornwall, 8 m. N. of Land's End. The works are on the edge of the cliff; part of the underground workings (abandoned in 1875) extended 2448 feet beneath the sea. The mine was worked as a tin mine in 1721, in 1841 was famous as a very rich copper mine, and has subsequently been wrought for both or for one of those metals.