Just a long the coast from Botallack, past the Geevor mine that I also visited – and which is worth a much longer stay than I was able to give it, is the Levant Mine – the site of one of the most serious mining disasters in Cornwall when the man-engine collapsed in 1919 with many miners on it, killing 31 and injuring many more.
![Levant Mine, Pendeen](https://mlt.photography/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cornwall-20190824-6776.jpg)
![Engine House at Levant Mine](https://mlt.photography/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cornwall-20190824-6778.jpg)
![Cliff view of the Levant Mine, Pendeen](https://mlt.photography/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cornwall-20190824-6780.jpg)
![Towards Pendeen Lighthouse, Levant](https://mlt.photography/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cornwall-20190824-6781.jpg)
![Cliff view towards the Levant mine and Pendeen Lighthouse](https://mlt.photography/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Cornwall-20190824-6782.jpg)
The National Trust now looks after a fully working steam engine here – it was wonderful to see it in steam.
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