Roy Morton
16 years ago
Looking at the latest mines section and clicked on 'View Mine' for Surprise Copper Mine and got just that. there is one archive album and seven user albums. Now there's a surprise!

It seems there is also a Foxholes Tin Tin Stream but I recon that could be a typo...So I've got the Thompson Twins to investigate.... 😉
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"Roy Morton" wrote:

Looking at the latest mines section and clicked on 'View Mine' for Surprise Copper Mine and got just that. there is one archive album and seven user albums. Now there's a surprise!



It seems to happen every now and again I shall fix it momentarily...

If anybody wishes to help me debug the SQL to work out why this happens once in a while then I would be very grateful of course.

"Roy Morton" wrote:

It seems there is also a Foxholes Tin Tin Stream but I recon that could be a typo...So Iv'e got the Thompson Twins investigating.... 😉



Interesting, that's perfectly explainable but I'm not sure how to address it.

The naming convention is thus:

Name + Mineral + Type

e.g.

Cwmorthin + Slate + Mine

But in the case of a Tin Stream 'Tin Stream' is the type, so:

Name + Mineral + Type =

Name + Tin + Tin Stream

So we end up with:

Foxholes Tin Tin Stream

It probably needs a display clause so that if type = tin stream no not show mineral...
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sparty_lea
16 years ago
"simonrl" wrote:





It probably needs a display clause so that if type = tin stream no not show mineral...


If you can do that then something on the same lines so we dont get
Wherever coal colliery would be good too.
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16 years ago
I think I need to start an AN webmaster benevolent fund :lol: :lol:
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16 years ago
No there is a Foxholes and it is on Dartmoor! 🙂 I was sent an email re the site today.

EDIT, I quote
"Tin Streaming works. The main activity has created a large basin at the head of the valley with a cutting on the east side. The counthouse (SX545853) is in good repair and is sited next to a wheelpit and launder system and 2 buddles. The leat for the launder can easy be folowed along the side of the works but is now dry.
This site might also heve been known as Wheal Frederick."
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carnkie
16 years ago
"simonrl" wrote:

I think I need to start an AN webmaster benevolent fund :lol: :lol:



Before you start your fund I was wondering about mine and colliery. Taking the fact that that a colliery is a coal mine including all that is attached to it (buildings, etc) that rather leaves things out on a limb regarding other minerals. I suppose if the photos are underground in a coal mine a description as mine is correct and anything above ground then revert to colliery. I think I'll go to bed. 🙂
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Roy Morton
16 years ago
No probs with the Foxholes bit Ian ,I know of at least three locations (hamlets) down here with the name. It was the TIN TIN stream that made me chuckle. Reminded me of the Herge's Adventures of Tin Tin. :lol:
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Its abit like the Adventures of Tin Tin up there on Dartmoor... when I go mine exploring its a different set of rules to Cornwall as basically you can die of exposure, fall in bogs, fall over hidden edges and get very lost very quickley.... I love Dartmoor but it is one of those places that can be daunting yet is totally overwhelming as everywhere you go there are prehistoric rings, standing stones, houses, tin workings.... and so on... certainly never boring! :thumbsup:

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16 years ago
"ICLOK" wrote:

No there is a Foxholes and it is on Dartmoor! 🙂 I was sent an email re the site today.

EDIT, I quote
"Tin Streaming works. The main activity has created a large basin at the head of the valley with a cutting on the east side. The counthouse (SX545853) is in good repair and is sited next to a wheelpit and launder system and 2 buddles. The leat for the launder can easy be folowed along the side of the works but is now dry.
This site might also heve been known as Wheal Frederick."



This site is usually known as Wheal Frederick, Duke of Wellington Consols or North Dartmoor Tin Mining Co. There is actually no documentation connecting the site with the name Foxholes, although most locals know it by that name which I think refers to the location. The streamworks were first documented in 1598, although they are likely to have earlier origins, and several small and mostly unsuccessful attempts at re-working the site are recorded in the 19th century. The remains of the stamping mill and dressing floors of 1854 are well worth seeing, with two fine centre-head buddles and a tramway that lead from the streamworks to the back of the stamps. All shows up well on Google Earth too. Like many Dartmoor tin mines of the period however, most of the profits came from selling shares rather than selling tin.
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Hi thanks very much for that, i will amend accordingly :thumbup:

cheers

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Done, now under Wheal Frederick
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