‘Richest Place On Earth' Is The Pits
Daily Star|April 18, 2020
A TINY Cornish village could become the most valuable place on Earth after the discovery of huge copper reserves underground.
John Bett
‘Richest Place On Earth' Is The Pits

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.

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