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Yarrow Copper Mine represents a brief chapter in Dartmoor's industrial past, when Victorian entrepreneurs sought mineral wealth beneath the moor. The workings sit within the characteristic landscape of granite outcrops and rough grassland, a landscape that has absorbed centuries of human endeavour and returned largely to wildness.
Today, weathered stone, shallow excavations and scattered spoil heaps mark where miners once toiled. The site offers a quiet place to contemplate the scale of effort required to extract value from Dartmoor's unyielding geology—and how quickly nature reclaims what industry leaves behind.
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