Wheal Basset Stamps Engine House black plaque

This black commemorative plaque records: Wheal Basset Stamps Engine House. This 1868 building housed two 30-inch cylinder rotative beam engines that drove 96 heads of stamps for crushing ore. After becoming part of Basset Mines Ltd in 1896, the dressing floors were mechanised and worked until the mine closed in 1918. Mineral Tramways. Recorded plaque organisation: Mineral Tramways Project.

Wheal Basset Stamps Engine House was a significant industrial structure built in 1868 for ore processing in Cornwall; it housed powerful engines that drove stamping machinery, reflecting the advanced mechanization of Cornish mining operations during the late Victorian era.