Tin Streaming mills and Stamp mills, Difference??

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mikebee62
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14 years ago

This may sound a bit daft, I am assuming that stamp mills used to treat rock dumps and streaming mills treated sand tailings.

Am I correct to assume this??, or did stamping mills also treat tailings ?.

Are there any records of all stamp and steaming plants in cornwall , that would have production figures and locations .

Not to much to ask Lol :lol:

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scooptram
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14 years ago

tolgus was a stream works when it first started but also crushed rock aswell the cornish stamps are still there installed in 1886 i think! ,there was a stream works on the way to troon from brea its where the grainet works are now

mikebee62
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14 years ago

I worked at Tolgus tin in the early 1980s !!, The one at the granite works , was Brea tin or Medway tin, not sure its a while ago now 🙂

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derrickman
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14 years ago

the streaming plant on the Brea road was Whear Tin at one time. It was owned by a chap called Peter Whear who had a number of houses in the Fore Street area which were let to CSM students.

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

spitfire
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14 years ago

"mikebee62" wrote:
This may sound a bit daft, I am assuming that stamp mills used to treat rock dumps and streaming mills treated sand tailings.

Am I correct to assume this??, or did stamping mills also treat tailings ?.

Are there any records of all stamp and steaming plants in cornwall , that would have production figures and locations .

Not to much to ask Lol :lol:

Just to answer the question without waffling about who owned them or how many houses.
Tin streams dressed tailings, stamp mills dressed tailings and dump material. Brea Tin dressed ore from an opencast near St Erth before the tin crash, Tolgus in latter years dressed beach sand

spitfire

Manicminer
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14 years ago

I thought that streaming for tin was when the gravels in rivers where washed for the tin ore and later on some beaches.
Stamp mills would have been used to crush hardrock ore to release the minerals within and the machinery after the stamps would have recovered the tin.

Tailings to me is the waste gangue from any plant used.
To stream tailings suggests reworking/rewashing mill waste.

Gold is where you find it

spitfire
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14 years ago

Yes you are right, I could have phrased that better, What I meant to say is they treated the leavings from the mines and yes the earlier streamers dressed alluvial tin

spitfire