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When you arrive at the Corrantee you will see a large gash in the hillside, the ruin of the mine offices, possibly the head of the haulage way and down by the burn the crusher wheel housing.  This is what I think was happening. The ore was brought out of the mine then worked manually to separate off much of the waste vein material. It was then taken in bogies down a gravity haulage. From the bottom it was transferred to the crusher on the platform you can see to the south of the wheel housing. Someplace very near that the crushed mix would have been put through a powered separating table of some sort, the gravel waste from which you can see in from the wheel housing.

The wheel would have been fed by a raised lade you can still see the supports for running back up the hill. The water for this would have been collected from the various streams coming off the hill but mainly by a lade taken from a dam higher up the main burn. Given the vigour of the burn I would not expect any trace of this to have survived. The sytem would also have supplied the water for the separator.

A poor photograph of the water wheel housing at the Corrantee mine.

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Possible surface works at the Corrantee mine.

A good specimen of Galena lead ore. [Lead Sulphide -PbS]

A limestone outcrop on the south shore just before the mouth of the loch. What strikes me as strange is that there are acid loving plants growing on and in close pro

The Corran lighthouse from the southern ferry jetty.

Looking back to Strontian from the road to Lochaline.

 The road to Ockle

Corran ferry, the gateway to the West.[ from the south..]