I don’t doubt that I’ll regret asking this, but what is the current situation at South Crofty? I did a google search, having been put in mind of it by posts on here, and I get an impression of financial manoeuvrings of little identifiable value, minor surface works and a certain amount of drawing in of funds from various sources?

As I understand it they are trying to devise a system to eliminate the toxic metals in the potential pumping water, so that when they begin the big pump, the water board will be happy and not have contaminated water everywhere!
All this is going to take some considerable time!

1O of the workforce laid off,including Mining Engineer and the Surveyor,only 4 remain.

It certainly seem pretty dire, if you do not have a mining engineer on site and no pup,ping is taking place what are they doing?
My guess is that they are awaiting a big finiancial injection before committing to any more from the locals
T
Ow price of tin certainly, will not help either!

To me it looks like a reorganisation, but ultimately as a lot of junior miners in the last 12 months, they have struggled to raise funds so they have reduced their overheads.

They still have a mining engineer on site - in fact at least 2.

As I understand it they are trying to devise a system to eliminate the toxic metals in the potential pumping water, so that when they begin the big pump, the water board will be happy and not have contaminated water everywhere!
All this is going to take some considerable time!

Maybe they should invest in this :)

Mine Water: Hydrology, Pollution, Remediation (Environmental Pollution): Hydrology, Pollution, Remediation (Environmental Pollution)

Paul L. Younger, S.A. Banwart, R.S. Hedin

Springer; 2002 edition


I have uploaded a review paper on acid mine water remediation for anyone interested.

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Bit behind the times there - now the country has gone Borrissey. The new method of smart-talk is to wave the arms a lot and follow most technical terms with either "mwaahhh" or "bwaahhh".

Hemerdon has new owners,2nd in-fact since it closed,working on developing a better screening process by all accounts,as the last method was a dead loss.

A wide tie knot and pointy shoes...…

Totally :offtopic: but.... :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Brilliant!

I will be shamelessly using THAT particular description of the average 21st century to$$er at the first opportunity when I'm back in work next week! :thumbup:

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working on developing a better screening process by all accounts,as the last method was a dead loss.

Not quite an accurate description, although that might be how it looked from over the bridge :lol:

Was not the screened material far lower percentage than anticipated?
Lets hope the new company makes a go of things.

Was not the screened material far lower percentage than anticipated?
Lets hope the new company makes a go of things.

Some was to be sure, a fair bit of product went out the gates though.
Its good that someone has stepped in with a view to mining, as the initial plan was to restore the site.

A wide tie knot and pointy shoes...…

Totally :offtopic: but.... :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Brilliant!

I will be shamelessly using THAT particular description of the average 21st century to$$er at the first opportunity when I'm back in work next week! :thumbup:

My sons refer to them as "Goblins"

Les

After closure Hargreaves purchased the site and held it till sold to the new company,NZ firm if I remember correctly,will have a check up.

and pointy shoes

Several of my Rolls-Royce customers were fans of this footwear style. We referred to one of them as “the Grand Visier”, as his shoes would have not looked out of place in Aladdin, whilst the other one had to walk ‘splay footed’, due to the length of the pointy toe. And the other thing, at the risk of taking us further off-topic, were the number of folk who pulled their shirtsleeves up at the start of a meeting so you could see their watch. Evidently there seems to be some sort of horological hierarchy. Who knew, or more importantly, cares?

It is totally pathetic.

A person is what they are, not what they own.

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I will often look pointedly at my watch in meetings, it's not really the watch itself I'm trying to draw attention to though :lol:

I would have thought it would be safer to keep the rolex covered up just in case some little scrote mugs you on the way home from the investors meeting,,!

A wide tie knot and pointy shoes may get you far among your peers

Winklepickers back in fashion ?

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Treliver was a new one on me. An interesting example of the power of the internet, in some ways.

http://www.cornishmineimages.co.uk/treliver-farm-project/ 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22357712  (£64m surfing industry in Cornwall? Really?)

... and a listing on LinkedIn, which (and I hadn’t realised that this happened) has collated details from entries by those involved and created a listing out of those (to be fair, it does say that no one is updating or operating that listing, but it’s an interesting concept. A sort of modern version of “enter Rumour, painted full of tongues”)

I wouldn’t have thought that re-processing old dumps, was a particularly radical concept. Whear Tin (?) used to do that, down in the Brea Valley, in my student days. I seem to remember that their main profit centres were selling the resulting washed crushed granite to the Camborne bypass construction site, and letting student accommodation.

There was also a short-lived operation dredging sands from, I think, Roscroggan and the-streaming the arisings.

Come to that, there are plenty of abandoned small-scale speculative sites around the old mining areas. I’m only surprised that anyone could care less about them, in the present time.