As Roy has said Cornwall has always had a history of being highly secretive, unless you are in the right group, you struggle to find out anything, this is what we found out and set out to change, information about what's down here is so closely guarded by some as the feel that the mines belong to them and how dare anyone go down without permission, because we are dealing with 99% mines aswell we have a situation unlike the rest of the UK in that all the sites are technically owned by someone and most of the time its impossible to find who.
As a group we are active in finding new sites, recording information and publishing, just look at our latest find on the facebook page, I get alot of emails asking for info on mines down here and what's worth visiting and will always do my best to point people in the right direction and if we are about sorting out trips and soon our SRT day which is already looking to be well attended
The other approach we take is light hearted which always seems to get the serious people all upset, we have a gating officer, a hacksaw officer, a press relations officer, numerous models, bolting official, gas axe officer and the list goes on.....to those that are reading this n horror they are all joke titles...well apart from the knitting officer, that's very important, we don't go round removing locks but the amount of people that sit up and take notice when you say you have a gas axe officer and assume we spend all our time cutting gates, what do you think we are? A caving club? We will be digging our own entrances soon! If you don't like the fun get off the internet!
We have members who have tried to join certain devon clubs and been told no, I have personally approached a few and never heard a thing back, most of the clubs in Cornwall still rely on royal mail for running and heaven forbid anyone mentions going underground at geevor/botallack and saying that the entrances are at the bottom of th cliffs the post count on the st just mines research forum skyrockets (yes they have made it onto the internet, no your not allowed to read any posts on it as its well hidden, I'm sure i will be talked about on it again now lmao)
If people want information the ask away, we will help and provide as much as we can, we are dragging Cornwall underground exploration into the 21st century kicking and screaming and if we didn't people down here would be holding it back in the 18th century
Some of the best trips in Cornwall are SRT ones which does limit people but we have done trips taking none srt people underground with no problem with safe and simple systems
Places down here will inevitably get sealed at some point if people are stupid in them, but it wont stop us informing people what's about