The Great Wheal Vor Community and Environment Group together with the Carleen Village Hall Committee are proud to announce that the Tea Treat will be back again this year! This is proving to be one of the most popular and much loved events in Breage Parish, so add it to your diary! Everyone is welcome!…
Isn’t it nice to see some sunshine for change! It is an exciting time of year in the Flow valley – all the wildlife is active. At dusk if you are lucky you will see a barn owl swooping over the fields below Tregonning Hill hunting its prey. You will begin to see the bats…
“Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children” Kenyan Proverb Recent Cornish Tin Drilling Activity Cornish Tin have now moved from site 23-015/PV234 and are now located west of Trew at site 23 – 110. They started to move off site PV207…
Talk By Tom Gatehouse 7pm Friday 17th May Carleen Village Hall, Carleen, Helston TR13 9QP Protect Wheal Vor & GWVCEG are delighted to host author and researcher Tom Gatehouse for a unique talk on the modern reality of mining and how it can affect our environment and our communities. The evening will include a talk and…
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for supporting our event last October which we believe was highly successful and has demonstrated how, with effort, we can repair, re-use, recycle responsibly thus reducing the burden of metal and mineral mining on our ecosystems. Thanks to your collective efforts we recycled over half…
Will this rain ever stop?! Cornish Tin Limited (CTL) certainly don’t let it stop them making a muddy mess in the fields they are active in! At PV207 drilling is still continuing. 9th April 2024 marks the 34th day of drilling so Cornish Tin are rapidly approaching their stated maximum number of days per hole….
One of our concerns with the resumption of exploratory drilling and potential resumption of full scale mining in the Great Wheal Vor Area and Breage Parish is not just causing new pollution if a new mine were to be developed but, the possibility the exploratory drilling causing increased pollution to the local water courses and…
Local Farmers’ Markets Held on the first Saturday of every month starting 3rd February 2024 the Helston Farmers Market will return – see their Facebook page for more details The Godolphin Cross Farmers Market is held on the second Saturday of every month from April to December – see their website for more details. Saturday 16th…
Cornish Tin have started the third phase of their exploratory drilling campaign. Given the recent wet weather the heavy plant movements for moving all their equipment in has, of course, created a mud bath in the fields they are currently operating in. CTL started operations at sites 23/107 and 23/101 on 14th February (see map…
An event for those with green fingers (or enthusiastic novices alike!). On March 2nd there will be a community tree planting and wellness event at Lotties Farm, Wheal Vor. It’s being organised by UEARTH® 2050 a pioneering project of The Vayyu Foundation, a practical, and non-profit charitable initiative based in the United Kingdom. The aim…