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The Ruins at Coppermine Point {Copper Mine National Park}: Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands

7/29/2011

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   Everyone's Travel Club heads to land for this post. I recently read a sailing blog where the author brought his family to the Virgin Islands, chartered a boat, and then sailed around looking for ruins to anchor by and explore. He ended up finding only beach bars. Well, there aren't many on Virgin Gorda, and for the two that we found you could sail to one, but not this one.
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   Coppermine Point is a recently created National Park on Virgin Gorda (2003). It represents the only known site within the West Indies with ties to the British industrial revolution. Natives mined here in the 1400s. The stone structures that are here now are the remnants of the Virgin Gorda Mining Company (1835-1862). They mined copper ore and shipped it to Wales in the United Kingdom for smelting. Two-hundred people used to operate the mine here!
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A view of Taylors Bay from Coppermine Point
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We highly recommend checking out this park, just don't try and sail to it (it's on the windward and rocky side of the island). We had the site to ourselves and best of all, it's free. 
~Paul, Ann, Jon   ETC

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rogister Alain-Robert
12/21/2013 10:43:46 pm

One can read in fr.wikipedia.org/Wiki/Virgin_Gorda : (ask for Virgin Gorda) :
"Au sud-est de l'île se trouve Copper Mine National Park. Entre 1838 et 1867, quelque 150 ouvriers dirigés par des Écossais ont extrait ici plus d'une tonne de cuivre. Le métal était fondu sur place puis transporté par bateau jusqu'en Angleterre. D'impressionants vestiges (fours, cheminée, puits de mine) témoignent de l'entreprise."
=> Well, you speak of about 200 workers, and i think, it's more reliable, but my problem is "more than 1 ton of copper" in nearly 40 years.
First they used to extract ORE, and second the quantity is likeky to be greater than 1 ton, both in ore and in copper. I just want to improve their web-page, giving you as for the source, but better you could yourself edit and improve the page. Thanks. A Rogister.

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