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Wheal Jane was worked for tin, copper, silver, zinc and arsenic from the 18th century.
Mineral extraction ended in 1992, following the collapse of tin prices.

A vast subterranean complex of hundreds of years of workings was abandoned, but the mill, laboratories, equipment and above all the people kept Jane alive.  

It is said that good news is no news - the demise of mines in Cornwall is now the stuff of legend.  The survival, evolution and growth of Cornish expertise and knowledge, and the energy of centuries of experience deserves to be trumpeted.

Today, Wheal Jane is home to a host of mining and minerals companies, environmental consultants and mining related manufacturing.  The knowledge and expertise that placed Cornwall at the forefront of industrial engineering lives on, the continuity with centuries of activity remains unbroken. 

Over 100 people work full time at the site, building and constructing mining equipment, analysing ore samples from all over the world, designing and implementing solutions to the environmental legacy of mining; and even manufacturing items from Cornish tin.Abathe workings led to substantial pollution of nearby waters; although he incidspacer  The Wheal Jane Group of companies were formed from a management buyout of the peripheral activities of the South Crofty Tin Mine in Cornwall, UK.Following the closure of South Crofty Mine in 1998 and the Wheal Jane Mineral Concentrator, a management buy out of the remaining profitable activities led to the formation of the Wheal Jane Group of Companies :- Wheal Jane Ltd, Wheal Jane Services Ltd and Carnon Enterprises Ltd.ent was newsworthy at the time, the quick response of the Environment Agency and
the expertise of the remaining Wheal Jane and South Crofty team and a major step forward in environmental engineering - the water treatment plant - have been less well reported.

LATEST NEWS

November 4th 2009
Wheal Jane - award winner
Wheal Jane was proud to host a visit from Lord Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency during his recent visit ahead of the formal awarding of the Green Apple Award for works undertaken to return the Wheal Jane pilot passive treatment plant to nature in the Carnon Valley.  Lord Smith and his team were[...]
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December 18th 2008
Treatment Plant - pilot scheme decommissioning
We are working with the Environment Agency in the decommissioning of the Wheal Jane Pilot Passive Treatment Plant Decommissioning Scheme. The works involve the removal of settled metal-bearing sediment, concrete structures, removal and re-planting of reed beds and the phased restoration and landscaping of the valley.[...]
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