http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-13556900 

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How long will it take to pump out?

It took quite some time to fill up.

Maybe they can divert some of the water they pump out to the decorative water features planned for Robinson's shaft....
http://www.theheartlandsproject.org.uk/thepark.htm 

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What a self-indulgent wank-fest by a load of gravy-trainers?

"Red Granite"? Where the hell are they getting that from? The Lizard?

"The existing chimney base will be adapted and a new chimney could be constructed using weathering steel. Visible from long distance, this vertical element will fade into the skyline with laser cut steel shapes mimicking plumes of steam and smoke as they rise above the horizon."

I'm sure someone like Tracy Emin could come up with something less totally and utterly shyte.

Grrrr. I see the artists reconstruction doesn't include packs of hoodies, graffiti and litter.

I'm sure all the really important people made a fortune in the process, including Mr Midas and his RDA chums.

"Of major importance to the site and a key visitor attraction will be the ‘Play Experience’. This feature will allow children to work together, channelling their energies to achieve real results. Activities will include pumping and channelling water to operate water powered moving ‘machines’, digging, building and moving piles of gravel and sand using tramways and grading aggregates into piles."

Isn't this what they were employed to do on the dressing floors in the 19th century? I bet they will have to pay for the privilege now!

It's all too depressing. 😞

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"Of major importance to the site and a key visitor attraction will be the ‘Play Experience’. This feature will allow children to work together, channelling their energies to achieve real results. Activities will include pumping and channelling water to operate water powered moving ‘machines’, digging, building and moving piles of gravel and sand using tramways and grading aggregates into piles."

Isn't this what they were employed to do on the dressing floors in the 19th century? I bet they will have to pay for the privilege now!

At least at Kilhope kids get to try dressing with genuine Weardale mineral on a real dressing floor, not some "artistic re-imagining" of one....

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"Of major importance to the site and a key visitor attraction will be the ‘Play Experience’. This feature will allow children to work together, channelling their energies to achieve real results. Activities will include pumping and channelling water to operate water powered moving ‘machines’, digging, building and moving piles of gravel and sand using tramways and grading aggregates into piles."

Isn't this what they were employed to do on the dressing floors in the 19th century? I bet they will have to pay for the privilege now!

Children down mines?

It'll never catch on! :lol:

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dear oh dear oh dear....

still, always a good thing if people are investing. Wheal Jane and Mount Wellington staggered on for years on incoming investment, so did Pendarves; and if people are getting proper wages for proper work and maintaining some sort of skills base, that has to be good.

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Don't let a few positives get in the way of a good moan!!!!!

If prices carry on this way, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more interest was pointed towards various deposits.

I gather W is 52k a ton. That is a lot of money.

Don't let a few positives get in the way of a good moan!!!!!

If prices carry on this way, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more interest was pointed towards various deposits.

I gather W is 52k a ton. That is a lot of money.

I'm supposing that would be Dollars not Quids?

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When Cornwall had Jane, Wellington, Crofty, Pendarves and Geevor working, Sn was at £8k, and W was at £15k/Tonne
just under double the Sn price. It appears the same scale has continued with Sn floating around the £20,000 at present.
I think Cligga could be in for a serious hammering with both minerals being present.
There was talk many years ago of working Cligga opencast, but the grades were not high enough to make it an economicaly viable proposition. Whether the same could happen now who knows? The environmental (emphasis on the last two sylables) lobby would need to be crowbarred off the cliffs either way. Waste management and proximity to the sea will have them all wringing thier hands and no doubt drawing parallels with the recent BP oil disaster.
Cornwall still has significant deposits of globaly important minerals, and it's time that the environmental agency reviewed the issue of mining, bearing in mind dwindling reserves worldwide. In the long-run home produced commodities will work out cheaper and supply will be a lot less fickle than in some third world banana repuplic where the local militia can suddenly cut off a supply by overthrowing the government, thus pushing world market prices up.
This could be a good earner for the UK, but I fear that it could go the same way as our North sea oil resources.
According to the Hirsch Report (2005) the UK ranked 10th in the top oil producers viz-
1 - USA
2 - Saudi Arabia
3 - Russia
4 - Mexico
5 - Iran
6 - China
7 - Norway
8 - Canada
9 - Venezuela
10 - UK
11 - United Arab Emerates
12 - Nigeria
13 - Iraq
14 - Kuwait
15 - Brazil
So where are all our profits......?
Perhaps now we have the opportunity to take the role of an exporter rather than an importer of commodities.
Fingers crossed hey.....let's see what happens at Hemerdon.

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Some years ago saw a brief for some arty farty type involved in the design of "Heartlands". At the top it was stressed heritage was NOT a priority. Says it all.

If these images don't depress you then I don't know what will. They've essentially gutted everything but the winding house and engine house. Not to mention the other buildings that they just went and demolished and the ground archaeology they've destroyed. An absolute tragedy.

Here:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XaB-0_wcDRE/TclNZoIPUrI/AAAAAAAAAfA/f0c6PrWEjpw/s1600/1%2BVIEW%2BN%2BROBINSONS%2BTO%2BC%2BCOLLEGE.jpg 

and

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eqTuFgaH1kc/TclPEZsgWvI/AAAAAAAAAfg/U6QdGd9bV-M/s1600/4%2BVIEW%2BS%2BROBINSONS%2BSHAFT.jpg 

so the dry has gone ,all the tram network around the site ,the 6"saw bench ,the climax drill sharpner the loco shed and will they paint the head frame pink? :guns:

Pardon me, but is Is that a white elephant I see on the horizon?
What a mess..!

I think KEM has the edge on preservation of original features and why? because the work has been put together by local experts and not 'interpreted' by a bunch of mining romantics from Milton Keynes with a pot of euro dosh to spend on 'good ideas'
Curious that they did not interview any Cornishmen or ex miners (sorry Mr K , No offence) to get their slant on the site.
I dare say the soundtrack at least would need an 18 certificate.

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Don't worry, there will be plenty of interpretation buildings set up to show you what the original features were like.

I hear a regular rotation of Pool's finest ladies will be hanging around the new park to give men an interpretation of 'drill sharpening' out of the daylight hours. You can then visit the Ball Maidens on the interpretation (un)dressing floors for a personal demonstration of banging and slamming. Money upfront only though, complaints to be forwarded to their bosses who will be found circling the new roads in their suped up Subaru offices.

so is that where bucking hammer comes from then?

Strange we havn't heard from the counsillor that loves the camera, No that's not right, loves himself then the camera!

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Pardon me, but is Is that a white elephant I see on the horizon?
What a mess..!

I think KEM has the edge on preservation of original features and why? because the work has been put together by local experts and not 'interpreted' by a bunch of mining romantics from Milton Keynes with a pot of euro dosh to spend on 'good ideas'
Curious that they did not interview any Cornishmen or ex miners (sorry Mr K , No offence) to get their slant on the site.
I dare say the soundtrack at least would need an 18 certificate.

The dry went through Roger Rules crusher ! I was told by a lady that works for the National Trust, that they had to demolish the old concrete dry because it wasn't in keeping with the mine and they needed the space so that they could build a dry. These people should be taken underground and left in the dark.

Can't wait for the sign that says White Wheal Elephant 😉 or welcome to Wheal Pointless or even the Heartless Project.

Ah well, might all change when we upcast through Rob's, think of all that nice blasting fumes and diesel exhaust all over those bright white buildings :lol:

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