Kelly Mine Visit

The Ruddlesden geotechnical team recently took some time out to have an educational and social afternoon out at Kelly Mine, on the southern edge of Dartmoor.

Kelly Mine is a micaceous haematite (iron oxide) mine that is typical of many in Devon and Cornwall, in its small size and lack of records, but unusual in the amount of original, above-ground processing equipment that remains.

Seeing the operational machinery and the workings really helps us appreciate and understand what might have gone on in the past, producing the geotechnical and contamination hazards that need to mitigated for development.

The mine (overground parts only) is open to the public on Wednesdays and Sundays, and we can thoroughly recommend it to like-minded individuals, interested in geology, local history and/ or industrial archaeology.

The tour was necessarily followed by a mining-themed pub quiz, with food and drink, at The Cleave, which could not be more Devonish if it tried.