at Geevor in 2026 Tin and copper have been mined from the general area of Geevor since the late 18th century. It was originally a small enterprise known as
Wheal an Giver, "a piece of ground occupied by goats". During the 1880s as many as 176 workers were employed at the mine, but in the ten years after North Levant's closure the site saw only intermittent activity by a few miners. They leased the area and conducted more thorough prospecting, being encouraged enough to set up a company called Levant North (Wheal Geevor) in 1901. The Wethered shaft (named after Oliver Wethered, one of the founders of the mine) was begun in 1909 and initial development occurred around it. By 1919, the works were moving west toward the coastline and the Victory shaft (named to celebrate the end of the First World War) was sunk about 540 metres to the north-west. The mine suspended operations in 1921 and again for 12 months during the tin crisis in 1930 that permanently closed many other Cornish mines. In 1944 working through Wethered shaft was discontinued, but the Victory shaft continued in use. From the end of World War II until the early 1960s both Geevor and
South Crofty found it hard to raise capital and to recruit skilled miners. Both mines took on Polish and Italian miners at this time. and at this time around 270 staff were employed by the mine. During the 1960s there was much underground exploration; this included extending into the undersea workings of the
Levant mine that had closed in 1930, work that was complicated by a hole in the seabed that first had to be plugged before the workings could be drained. By the 1970s Geevor's
sett covered an area of about three square miles and included Boscaswell Downs mine, Pendeen Consols and Levant mine. and the pumps were switched off in May 1991 allowing the workings to flood. at Geevor Tin Mine at Geevor Tin Mine ==Geology==