Talk:Cape Cornwall Mine

Wineries?
Could this be a slip of the tongue for wine cellars? Since a winery is a place where grapes are grown and wine made, for that to happen on/in former ore-sorting floors of a mine is on the face of it implausible. Awien (talk) 23:00, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * No, "place where wine is made" is correct. Cornwall has a warm wet climate ideal for grape cultivation, and has a lot of vineyards. An ore-sorting floor isn't "floor" in the sense of "floor of a building", but a big fenced-off area where rubble was piled prior to being picked through (kind of like a present-day scrapyard); once the mine was closed and the rubble cleared away, what was left was a large field with a sturdy stone wall around it, and a lot of long cool tunnels - pretty much the ideal environment for wine-making. The long low walls in the eastern half of this photo are the former vineyards as they appear today. Mogism (talk) 23:11, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Aha! Thanks. Living and learning, one of the great joys of Wikipedia! Awien (talk) 00:07, 30 November 2012 (UTC)