New Wheal Leisure was a mine beneath and around Bolingey, near Perranporth. Despite the name, it was not simply a new chapter at Wheal Leisure in the town: it had its own workings and documentary history.
Zinc became especially important in its later operation, alongside smaller quantities of other ores. The workings followed two lodes, with a shaft and an adit forming part of the underground system. Surface processing features recorded in older accounts have not all survived.
The mine’s twentieth-century activity is a useful reminder that the railway-and-holiday era did not immediately replace extraction. Industrial and resort histories overlapped. Follow the separate Wheal Leisure entries to keep the businesses straight, and the Perranporth mining story for the town that developed around them.
Where it is
New Wheal Leisure / Wheal Alfred
50.337884, -5.144523 · Position source: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B01793.html
Historic mine locality from the Geological Survey grid [SW 76335 53392]; not a surveyed shaft or visitor entrance
Visiting and access
A location reference, not confirmation of public access or a visitor entrance.
Sources
Source: https://nmrs.org.uk/mine_directory/new-wheal-leisure/ Source: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/memoirs/docs/B01793.html