Wheal Owles Near Botallack, Cornwall Royalty-Free Stock Image

Wheal Owles was a tin mine near St Just in Cornwall, the site of a mining disaster in 1893 when twenty miners lost their lives and were drowned. Wheal Owles Mine pronounced `Oals` lies on the cliffs on the north coast of Cornwall, about a mile and a half northeast of Cape Cornwall in the St. Just mining area of north Penwith district. There is known to have been a mine in this general area from the 1700`s but Wheal Owles` best years were during the decade 1860-70.