‘Richest Place On Earth' Is The Pits

A TINY Cornish village could become the most valuable place on Earth after the discovery of huge copper reserves underground.

- John Bett

Gwennap covers just a square mile but tests revealed it has large deposits of minerals from which copper and tin is extracted.

During the 18th and early 19th centuries the village – used as a filming location for BBC One drama Poldark – was called the “richest square mile in the Old World”.

It had the biggest copper reserves in the world at the time – and it could reclaim that crown.