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Protect Wheal Vor

Protect Wheal Vor is a project which opposes the mining of tin and other mineral ores in the parish and environs of Breage, set up by the Great Wheal Vor Community and Environment Group (GWVCEG). GWVCEG is a community group formed in 2021 which seeks to safeguard this rural community from unsuitable development and protect and improve the local environment.

Any future extractive mining, despite its new green promises, is likely to produce significant additional dangers for our environment, as well as the potential to radically alter the character of the area.

The Wheal Vor historic mining area is located within the Parish of Breage. In January 2021, the GWVCEG became aware of the plans of Cornish Tin Ltd to launch an exploratory drilling program in and around the Wheal Vor area.

Drilling began in April 2021, since when Cornish Tin have carried out three phases of exploration, drilling a total of 9,290 meters of bore holes. This operation was done with the consent of Cornwall Council under General Permitted Development Orders (GPDO’s).

Despite reassurances from Cornwall Council and the Environment Agency, there are risks of additional metal contamination to our rivers and streams caused by the boreholes, some of which reached significant depths.

Furthermore, the local community is obliged to live with the uncertainty generated by the speculative activities of a mining company, which could go on for an extended period.

Should planning permission for extractive mining be sought at any time in the future, Protect Wheal Vor will formally object.

“The push for ‘Strategic minerals’ promotes the idea
of ‘sacrificial zones’ where communities and environments are viewed as disposable in order to deliver a greater good.“
(Yes to Life, No to Mining. Sept 2020)

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