sentences:  The mines returned very little silver overall, and only one cargo of ore was ever shipped from Port Gorey.However the mines attracted visitors from Guernsey which encouraged the development of tourism infrastructure to cater for tourists who found the beauty of Sark's landscape a reason to continue visiting after the closure of the mines.John Oxenham's 1910 novel "A Maid Of The Silver Sea"(read there) uses the mines of Little Sark, as well as La Coupée, as its setting.