Cligga Head Mine – the derelict site
Not much information exists about early mining. Material eroded from the western cliff, including tin, accumulated on the beach and stormy seas resulted in very rough sorting and from time to time a few miners extracted a living by hand selection of the beach debris.
In 1938 mining resumed in a small way and in 1939 the Rhodesian Mines Trust Ltd took over. They looked into the feasability of working as an opencast pit rather than as an underground mine but nothing came of it. From 1940 to 1944 Cligga produced 300 tons of wolfram and 200 tins of black tin.
UK National Grid Reference SW728518
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