Cornwall Gold — Attraction in Redruth

A really interesting place to visit. To learn about the hardships of mining for tin back in the day, it was truly a job that you wouldn't want.

For the kids, they can learn how to pan for little pieces of tin, and you can bag them up and take them home, for free. Fascinating and kept us busy for a while. There is a build a bear type shop, krazy golf, and for the adults, you can browse some beautiful and reasonably priced jewellery.

If you want food, I can thoroughly recommend the onsite restaurant, I had the bubble and squeak, with a latte, my other half had the "porker", again, with a latte. Good heavens, they certainly feed you very very well. My bubble and squeak came with two thick sliced rashers of bacon, and, an extremely fresh egg perched atop. And I can tell you, it was absolutely delicious and HUGE. My partner, she had the porker, oh boy, that was a shocker, it was massive. Half a huge cob loaf, lined with bacon, sausages, red onion and a fresh side salad thrown in for good measure. And I can report, from her opinion, it was utterly delicious. And, the latte's, proper coffee, great taste and very welcome on a cold day like today.

Honestly, the kitchen /waiting staff were extremely polite and approachable, nothing was too much for them, genuinely lovely people.

With no entrance fee or parking costs, it was a lovely day out, and, for the restaurant price, our lovely meal only came to £22.00 for both our meals and the coffees, absolute bargain. And, we drove a few miles down the road, and took a lovely walk along Perranporth beach after as we felt very fat after our...

The sales area is very good, great access. People in wheel chairs and on scooters should have no problems. The restaruant is clean and although the prices are top of the range I would pay for this kind of food it was good quality. The scones were a little bit like sponge cakes but quite edible. The other atractions and items were generally quite good but I would not recommend the tin plant to people in wheel chairs or scooters.

We went looking for a ring for my wife to celebrate our wedding anniversary (39 years) but we thought they were quite expensive. We saw similar rings later in the day that were not as expensive. In all fairness the quality appears to be very good and we may yet return to purchase one of the rings we looked at.

At one time there was a seperate place called Cornwall (or posibly Cornish) Pearl. This seems to have been combined with Cornwall gold at this site but in it's own building. It is a lot smaller than I remember but it is still interesting and children can discover how pearls are formed. There is plenty of free parking and the Teddy bear factory and the pottery painting are sure to be a hit, take Grandma back a purple dragon, it is just what she always wanted!

Now I have to tell you, In the end we did return to Cornwall gold and purchased a beautiful ring, a laticework of fine gold in a celtic kind of pattern, we also bought the earings and the necklace that went with it. In all honesty the quality was better than anything else we saw whilst we were in Cornwall and I did not mind paying a little more for that on this...

I am not sure I have ever been more disappointed by a customer service, or lack of, experience! My parents bought be a bracelet from Cornwall Gold for a special birthday. I wore it a few times but decided to stop wearing it as the clasp was rather flimsy and it kept opening with the very real risk that I would lose the bracelet - this was not a cheap item of jewelry and also a special gift so losing it would have been awful! Four emails to Cornwall Gold regarding this went completely unanswered - so rude! A telephone call to customer service resulted in me taking it back to CG - a 3 and a half hour drive. The lady who served me could not have been less interested if she had tried. No apology, no discussion - took it to the workshop. Returned with the bracelet, put it down on the counter and did not speak! I asked what the decision was and she told me it had been fixed and I should really have done it myself!! I suggested the clasp was not sufficient for the bracelet and she totally dismissed that suggestion and said there was nothing further they could do. I decided not to argue - I really didn't want to deal with this company any further. I will take it to a local jeweler to have a better clasp put on it. Its not about the money but this bracelet cost not much less...