Qualla: Cape Cornwall Mine https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall-mine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-mine-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cape Cornwall Mine https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall-mine Cape Cornwall Mine: Introduction https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall-mine/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. There is a stone chimney standing on top of Cape Cornwall, and at its base is a plaque shaped like a Heinz Baked Beans label. The pairing tells the whole story. The chimney was raised in 1864 for the boilers of a struggling tin mine. By 1880 the same chimney had been retired from mining duty but kept upright, because mariners coming around Land's End used it as a landmark. The mine itself closed for good in 1883. A century later, in 1987, the H. J. Heinz Company bought the entire headland and gave it to the nation, and the company that built its fortune on canned beans got to commemorate the gift with the only piece of corporate branding in any UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cornwall accepted it on the spot.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-mine-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-mine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cape Cornwall Mine: A Mine That Could Not Quite Succeed https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall-mine/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cape Cornwall Mine opened in 1838, during the height of the Cornish mining boom. The site was unpromising. Steep cliffs surrounded the workings on three sides, leaving almost no flat ground for the surface operations that any nineteenth-century mine required: floors for breaking ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-mine-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-mine-a-mine-that-could-not-quite-succeed.mp3 0:06 2 full Cape Cornwall Mine: The Industry Ends https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall-mine/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. By 1879, when the mine reopened for what would be its last attempt, the Cornish industry was already collapsing. Cheap tin from Malaya and Bolivia was flooding the world market. Parliament had begun to regulate the worst of the working conditions: the Metalliferous Mines Regulati...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-mine-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-mine-the-industry-ends.mp3 0:06 3 full Cape Cornwall Mine: Greenhouses and a Diamond Magnate https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall-mine/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. The site then took an unexpected turn. In 1907 Francis Oats, the Cornishman who had risen to become chairman of De Beers in South Africa, built himself an 11,660-square-foot country house called Porthledden on the slope above the abandoned mine. Oats was born in the village just ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/v/cape-cornwall-mine-wp/gbgv-cape-cornwall-mine-greenhouses-and-a-diamond-magnate.mp3 0:06 4 full Cape Cornwall Mine: Heinz Buys a Cape https://qualla.com/cape-cornwall-mine/ Photo credit Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0. By the 1980s the workings had returned to ruin and Porthledden was changing hands. In 1987, to mark a hundred years of operating in the United Kingdom, the H. J. Heinz Company bought the entire headland, mine and chimney and all, and presented it to the nation through the Nationa...

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