Mines in Sark

Sark, the smallest of the four main Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, is a Crown Dependency rather than part of the United Kingdom and was a feudal fief until 2008. Its mining history is short and concentrated: lead and silver were worked on Little Sark, the southern peninsula, as early as the seventeenth century, and between 1833 and 1845 a Cornish-led venture sank shafts below the sea at Port Gorey, whose debts cost the Le Pelley Seigneurs the island. The Channel Islands are covered here, like the Isle of Man, as part of the mining heritage of the British Isles.

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Record created: 16 October 2026 · Last researched: 16 October 2026