Managers and staff at Geevor Tin Mine Museum and Heritage Centre are to hold a World Heritage Day on Sunday April 1 to celebrate the site's World Heritage Status. Unesco's award in the summer of 2006 of to the mining landscape centred around 10 areas of the former mining districts of Cornwall and West Devon.

The site, including the Museum, surface buildings and the underground tour, will be open to all, free of charge, on Sunday 1st April only. The highlight of the day will be a unique chance to see how tin is produced. Local metalworker and mining expert Geoff Treseder, who worked at Geevor as a sampler for many years, collecting samples of ore from areas of the mine that were being worked and analysing them for tin and other mineral content, will demonstrate how the rock containing tin ore is crushed, separated and smelted. The entire process takes less than an hour.

Managers and staff at Geevor hope that as many people as possible, especially those from the local area, will take this chance to visit the site and find out about the exciting new developments that will be taking place over the next year, funded by a £3.4 million grant from Heritage Lottery Fund and European Community Objective One.