West Bassett Stamps, Carnkie, Camborne, Cornwall

            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.

Directly behind the arched wall to the right is the Vanner house. This contained shaking tables known as 'Frue Vanners' that were used to separate heavier black tin particles from lighter waste in the crushed ore. From there the pulp (as the pulverised ore and water mixture was termed) was wheeled to the buddles (out of sight to the right). In general tin ore averaged only 1 to 1.5 % of the rock which had to be processed at this time.
 
When both Bassett Stamps and West Bassett Stamps were in operation the resultant noise down in the village of Carnkie must have been intolerable. Although it is said that the inhabitants only noticed when they when they were stopped for maintenance etc. But by then they were probably half-deaf anyway!

Taken on: September 21, 2015

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