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stuey
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17 years ago

#21

That is a view which is bandied about regarding SW minerals quite a lot. Generally by the sorts of people who believe that tourism is the solution to our economic starvation......

I'd like someone to draw a line around cornwall and then consider the cash flow with tourism and without tourism... Anyway, before I start a rant off.

The area may have narrow lodes and be a pain to mine, there may be difficulties with tree huggers. Fact is that it's the biggest reserve of tin in W Europe. If people want to have their luxuries, it will have to come out.

The big guns may steer clear with their desire to do opencast scale underground mining, but at some point, it should be economic to deal with it.

It's like UK Coal, that will all come out at some point as well. If not by UK backing, by Chinese backing.

That's my opinion....

Knocker
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17 years ago

#22

I would love to know exactly what minerals are in Crofty's ownership. In the early 80's the then Crofty acquired Tehidy minerals, which was the holding company for all of the original basset minerals, including a large proportion of the Great Flat Lode (Euny to the Red River), the rest belonged to the Grenvilles, so I have no idea what the ownership of those are.

With regards to Lord Falmouth, I daresay he would have sold off the "Dead Duck" mineral rights, but in view of the income he was recieving from Geevor and Jane until very recently, it would be madness to sell those off.

stuey
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17 years ago

#23

"Knocker" wrote:
I would love to know exactly what minerals are in Crofty's ownership. In the early 80's the then Crofty acquired Tehidy minerals, which was the holding company for all of the original basset minerals, including a large proportion of the Great Flat Lode (Euny to the Red River), the rest belonged to the Grenvilles, so I have no idea what the ownership of those are.

With regards to Lord Falmouth, I daresay he would have sold off the "Dead Duck" mineral rights, but in view of the income he was recieving from Geevor and Jane until very recently, it would be madness to sell those off.

I'm most certainly no communist but mineral rights are a matter of national importance. I see it a bit archaic that the squire takes a chunk. I suppose the UK is a place of odd laws and history. Good thing really.

justin
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17 years ago

#24

"stuey" wrote:
I remember reading that Pendarves didn't have an adit......

Is there anything left you can go in?

Is your info from the RTZ book?

main shaft has a nice thick concrete cap ...drilled during
the last drought by SWW to sample the water with a
view to topping up domestic supply but decided it was
just too sh1t...
no. 2 shaft (2nd egress) which carried services and
was laddered is still open ..(last time i looked)
small shaft approx 6x8 foot ..
ladders at surface are probably removed...
Shaft almost certainly goes to water.. no adit
all water was pumped to surface and they really did
pump an awful lot of water

geoff
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17 years ago

#25

"Knocker" wrote:
Geevors mineral rights belong to Lord Falmouth, as I believe do Wheal Jane's.

You're right about Jane, but not Geevor which was predominantly the Robyns estate, Crown, Duchy and Borlase Estate (along with several minor holdings). Lord Falmouth has the mineral rights to the inland portion of Botallack and presumably Carnyorth. If Geevor's plans for Botallack hadn't been derailed by the tin price crash of 1985 he would have had some income from the use of Allens Shaft and probably some wayleave on ore travelling back through his ground, but the target was seaward through Duchy into Crown mineral rights and get it back to surface at Geevor via an incline.

carnkie
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17 years ago

#26

Another consideration is Hemerdon mine in Devon. I'm not sure whether this has been discussed before.
On 4th December 2007 it was announced that Australian company, Wolf Minerals LLC had acquired the rights to mine this deposit, and current plans are to reopen the site as a full-scale opencast metal mine for tungsten and tin, producing up to 3000 tonnes of tungsten metal per year.

The original name for the workings was "Hemerdon Bal", this was corrupted over time (possibly due to a mis-spelling on Ordnance Survey maps that remains to this day) to "Hemerdon Ball". The current owners refer to the deposit just as the "Hemerdon Mine".

Raises the question whether Tungsten should be added to the mineral list.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

Dolcoathguy
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16 years ago

#27

Further to comments about Geevor, their website now shows that efforts are now being made to pump down to the 3rd level (april 09).
May pop down there soon, as well as the mine and the new visitor centre, there is some interesting geology, minerals and coastline around that site. Will be interesting to see first hand how it is going.

Is it safe to come out of the bunker yet?

ICLOK
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16 years ago

#28

Tungsten AKA Wolframite

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh Creeper!!!!!