Wheal Gorland was a metalliferous mine located just to the north-east of the village of St Day, Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom.
It was one of the most important Cornish mines of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, both for the quantity of ore it produced and for the wide variety of uncommon secondary copper minerals found there[1] as a result of supergene enrichment.
[9] Records from 1836 show 86 people working at the mine, 53 men, 12 women and 21 children.
[8] The mine was reopened in 1906 when Edgar Allen and Company[1] reworked the stopes and the dumps for tin and tungsten ores.
[11] A condition summary compiled on 21 July 2010 reported that the site was in an ″unfavourable declining condition″ because growth of scrubland vegetation was encroaching on to the waste dumps and hindering future excavations in search of minerals for scientific study.