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English: Joel Gascoyne's "A Map of the County of Cornwall" (1699), dedication to Charles Robartes, Earl of Radnor. This cartouche depicts incidents from the Cornish tin mining industry. This cartouche depicts incidents from the Cornish tin mining industry.
The Cornish Miner in America: the Contribution to the Mining History of the United States by Emigrant Cornish Miners: the Men Called Cousin Jacks. Arthur H. Clark (publisher). September 1995. ISBN 978-0-87062-238-0. White, Helen M. Cornish Cousins of Minnesota, Lost and Found: St. Piran's Society of Minnesota. Minnesota Heritage Publications. 1997.
Many stannary-related papers including registration of tin bounds, records of tin production and papers relating to disputes are to be found in the records of families with tin mining interests, although these are frequently intermingled with records on other matters so location of specific information is difficult.
East Pool mine (later known as East Pool and Agar mine), was a metalliferous mine in the Camborne and Redruth mining area, just east of the village of Pool in Cornwall.Worked from the early 18th century until 1945, first for copper and later tin, it was very profitable for much of its life.
A calciner dating from 1910–1913 when the mine was reopened, roasted the tin to remove impurities such as arsenic. [ 2 ] The surviving structures were all listed as Grade II buildings on 31 October 1988: The Stamps House, [ 14 ] the chimney east of the New Whim engine house, [ 15 ] the Old Whim and New Whim engine houses, [ 13 ] the ...
Wheal Metal is a tin-mining sett in west Cornwall, England, UK. Whilst not as famous as neighbouring Wheal Vor, it was thus described by the Mining Journal in July 1885: " Truly this is a wonderful mine—probably the richest tin mine in the world." It also hosts a very remarkable engine house of the mid-19th century that once stood over ...
The town is best known as a centre for the former Cornish tin and copper mining industry, having its working heyday during the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Camborne was just a village until transformed by the mining boom which began in the late 18th century and saw the Camborne and Redruth district become the "richest square mile in the ...
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