South Crofty

[legendrider]

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[Graigwen]

I don't think there was ever much doubt that there was some high grade tin ore at South Crpfty. The more difficult question is whether it can be mined and treated economically.
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[Wayland Smith]

I don't think there was ever much doubt that there was some high grade tin ore at South Crpfty. The more difficult question is whether it can be mined and treated economically.
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But there's good money to be made doing investigations and studies along with drilling holes.
(If you can find investors.)

 

[Cantclimbtom]

If anything will get extracted in Cornwall in the near future, I'd guess at perhaps lithium by some kind of solution mining process, rather than tin? Unless of course you call geothermal "heat mining"

 

[Graigwen]

But there's good money to be made doing investigations and studies along with drilling holes.
(If you can find investors.)

Indeed. I once reported to a London Head Office "It looks like we have found a very low grade super-giant porphyry copper deposit. but it is under Snowdon so we won't be able to mine it." The London office said, better have a more detailed look - that was the green light for a year of drilling and investigations which concluded my original comments were correct.

The company were a subsidiary of a Canadian company, I suspect if the original report had reached Canada they would have pulled the plug on us at once.

 

[AR]

This one is more likely to go into production, given how in-demand rare earth elements are now : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64253708

 

[Flotsam]

Cornish Tin was exported around Europe and Asia during the bronze age.