The engine looks like an LD1 - cracking engines, totally bombproof. First engine I ever stripped and rebuilt.

LR1 (1967) equally bombproof.:thumbsup:

We seem to have come a long way from the original thread!
As I have often posted the large mining companies are more interested in economics rather, than looking at small deposits.
In my opinion, deep mining in the Uk, is now pretty unlikely, unless mineral values go through the roof.
As we seem to have moved to looking at electricity generation. Here is another slant
.A small firm has looked at harnessing hydro-power across the U.K. using, weirs, dams etc set up during the industrial revolution. They calculate, these schemes could produce, up to 2% of our base load.
(The proposed new Nuclear power plant will make 7%)
However, they need government assistance for these schemes and the minister has just pulled the plug on them.)
Seems to me this is pretty shortsighted. But then what do you expect..?...?

I didn't expect anything else, all to keep a bunch of misinformed emperors new cloths voters and the coffer man happy, pathetic really, time will tell, innovations and the solutions they can provide can be good and provide a significant financial benefit for the country.

That's the way I see it.

Lozz.

We seem to have come a long way from the original thread!
As I have often posted the large mining companies are more interested in economics rather, than looking at small deposits.
In my opinion, deep mining in the Uk, is now pretty unlikely, unless mineral values go through the roof.
As we seem to have moved to looking at electricity generation. Here is another slant
.A small firm has looked at harnessing hydro-power across the U.K. using, weirs, dams etc set up during the industrial revolution. They calculate, these schemes could produce, up to 2% of our base load.
(The proposed new Nuclear power plant will make 7%)
However, they need government assistance for these schemes and the minister has just pulled the plug on them.)
Seems to me this is pretty shortsighted. But then what do you expect..?...?

I didn't expect anything else, all to keep a bunch of misinformed emperors new cloths voters and the coffer man happy, pathetic really, time will tell, innovations and the solutions they can provide can be good and provide a significant financial benefit for the country.

That's the way I see it.

Lozz.

Is`nt there an application in the pipeline for a hydro system near Bettws y coed,heard the end of it last week on the radio,although seem`s to be opposition to it,regarding re-routeing the river and the building of a weir.

Yes, there is. I don't know details, but did see it mentioned on the web a few days ago. The bit that stood out to me was when it casually mentioned that at peak times the river level would only be reduced by 47%!!!!!

To drift even further off topic and vaguely relating to John's point about 19thC weirs and dams, the hapless appentices in 18thC Sheffield bemoaned the fact that their heartless masters made them eat salmon from the Don, nearly every day. Harnessing water power for manufacturing was in (small) part responsible for improving their diet with KFC and the like.;)

Slightly of greater relevance most of the dams gave very unreliable supply and were rapidly abandoned for steam and later this electrickery stuff. There is an ongoing process of removing/ameliorating many weirs because of their impact on fish and wildlife generally. On which issue the Archimedes Screw turbine at Hexham was dropped in part because of the riparian lobby, there was probably some tin somewhere in the mechanism.

The Salmon swim up river to spawn, then die.
The dead bodies float down river where they can be netted and provide a cheap food for the apprentices! :smartass:

Not quite all salmon, a few female manage to return to the sea:smartass::smartass:, mind you have you seen the state of dead salmon after a few days in a river? the ones I've seen in the Tyne didn't look very appertising. Road kill has more going for it.

Not quite all salmon, a few female manage to return to the sea:smartass::smartass:, mind you have you seen the state of dead salmon after a few days in a river? the ones I've seen in the Tyne didn't look very appertising. Road kill has more going for it.

That's exactly why they did not enjoy them! :(
I think I have heard this in Worcester as well.

When there were prolific runs of Salmon they would be a cheap food source - the same apprentice story comes from London and probably a number of places elsewhere. Forget sporting ways of taking Salmon - they would be easily trapped, netted or gaffed. When Salmon ran my local River Dove (they do again now due to a re-stocking programme) one method of catching them was to shoot them from a bridge with a shotgun. Another factor comes in here though as despite the damage from the shot the fish were likely to be unpalatable having spent too long in the river - it takes two weeks reach the Dove from the sea in good conditions, with low water extending this. Sheffield is a long way from the sea too. So, the apprentices were probably complaining about the boredom and even "too much of a good thing" but may have found the fish having lost condition were not very good to eat. Feeding rotting fish to apprentices would reduce the workforce through health issues.

Going back to the original subject, I am sure some of the scepticism would equally have been applied to Hemerdon in the earlier years of Wolf's interest. Note that I understand the major shareholder in the latter (a private equity group) is also a major holder in New Age. Redmoor has an identified resource close to surface, so must be an attractive target given the right market conditions. Of course there are problems which Hemerdon doesn't have, notably the amount of other development over the site.

The mining industry in general seems to be going through a bad patch

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/ftse100/12039422/Miners-in-meltdown-Mining-stocks-plunge-to-11-year-lows.html 

It will be interesting to see how the China Crunch and metal demand crisis combines with the forthcoming supply crunch with tin. (2017).

Probably everything staying approx the same.

The big mistake that people keep making is trying to draw comparisons between tin and the big industrial metals. The same rules don't apply, simple as that. Here's the reasons why: -
1. Tin demand is governed new principally by the demand for consumer electronics, there has been no fall off in that demand, as a result there has been no contraction in the tin market, unlike say copper and iron, which are strongly linked to the development of emerging nations like China and India.

2. There are very few tin producers, meaning that the loss of one mine makes a massive impact on worldwide supply, particularly when that mine is San Rafael, which is currently winding down towards total closure in 2 years.

3. Due to the tin crash of 1985, there has been a dearth of new discoveries as quite simply the price per tonne doesn't warrant an exploration programme, this means within the next five years there is likely to be a large spike in the price of tin, with it possibly heading towards $50k per tonne.

4. As exploration ramps up, the explorers will first look towards the known tin areas, with Cornwall being top of the list. Which is home to the largest known resources of tin. Tasman Ian will be second.

If it wasn't for the previous development, it would seem that there would be potential for a large openpit mine at Redmoor, working the entre SVC. Southwest Consolidated in the 1980's seemed to have steered away from that option, instead going for an underground mine proposed to concentrate on the richer portions. It seems that the recent drilling at Dolcoath indicates potential for a shallow low grade open pittable resouce. In some ways this is analogous to the recent history of Australian gold mining, where low grade open pit mines were successfully developed on the site of previous high grade underground mines. If there was housing etc. in the way this would simply be moved. Would the inhabitants of Kelly Bray or the back streets of Tuckingmill be in favour of this, I wonder?

Its a real shame redmoor isn't under callington, because at least the general population of callington don't have the IQ to question it or are too high to care....! Redmoor won't happen in our life times...

A bit of news
http://nae.net.au/ 
pretty much what I predicted this time last year, they have dropped the coking coal prospect and are preparing for a new drilling campaign towards the end of the year.

I prepared for the (apparently) inevitable last year.;D:offtopic:
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I've one of those on the decking but still in its work clothes.

For some reason mine is very hard to start. Even with loads of EasyStart sprayed in the intake, I have to go at it like I'm on Britney Spears and have just heard the wife's car pull up.

Something that I've noticed that seems to help is using my jet lighter to heat up the copper fuel pipe leading to the injector. Warmer diesel seems to fire easier.

Once running it'll run all day no problem.

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For some reason mine is very hard to start. Even with loads of EasyStart sprayed in the intake,

Miles, assuming the compression and injector spray are good they normally start very easily. Are you setting the fuel control to the 'start' position and turning the engine over decompressed for 3-20 turns, (depends on time since last used)?

Do you have a workshop manual?

"Go at it like I'm on Britney Spears".

This doesn't convey the adequate degree of frenzy.

After those 2 thai birds didn't turn up and I had popped 3 viagra in anticipation, I went at it solo, like a chinese helicopter pilot.

Heheh! Careful - you might go blind!

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For some reason mine is very hard to start. Even with loads of EasyStart sprayed in the intake,

Miles, assuming the compression and injector spray are good they normally start very easily. Are you setting the fuel control to the 'start' position and turning the engine over decompressed for 3-20 turns, (depends on time since last used)?

Do you have a workshop manual?

Not got the manual for it but yes, cranking about 20 times with decompression lever over (I can't turn it when compression is on), as fast as I can then throwing the compression switch. Nothing happens, but after lots of go's and lots of easy-start it eventually fires...

PS - I think my engine is an AD1.

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