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The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Postby ReformedCharacter » October 13th, 2020, 9:35 pm

The Central Mining District, Cornwall, UK - The model is complete with buildings (circa 1910), mine names and mine workings (circa 1998).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPid53ornow&t=0s

Incredible to see the extent of mining in Cornwall.

RC

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Re: The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Re: The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Postby bluedonkey » October 14th, 2020, 9:07 am

Mining was so important in Cornwall, a mining school was created. Camborne School of Mines.
http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/csm/

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Re: The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Postby PinkDalek » October 14th, 2020, 11:11 am

bluedonkey wrote:Mining was so important in Cornwall, a mining school was created. Camborne School of Mines.
http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/csm/


Which conveniently lets me mention the “Bottle Match”.

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/csm125/did-you-know.html

The Bottle Match is a varsity match played between the Camborne School of Mines and the Royal School of Mines (RSM), Imperial College London. The first recorded match between the two sides took place on 16 December 1902, making it the second oldest rugby varsity match in the world.

Current holders Royal School of Mines!

Don’t ask how I knew.

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Re: The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Postby Mike88 » October 14th, 2020, 11:31 am

I recently spent a few days in Cornwall tracing my ancestry. There is still much evidence of former mine workings and there is an excellent National Trust mine site that was used to film scenes for the TV Programme "Poldark".

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Re: The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Postby Nimrod103 » October 15th, 2020, 11:31 am

ReformedCharacter wrote:
The Central Mining District, Cornwall, UK - The model is complete with buildings (circa 1910), mine names and mine workings (circa 1998).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPid53ornow&t=0s

Incredible to see the extent of mining in Cornwall.

RC


Almost certainly a big underestimate because a lot of the early shallower mainly copper mining has gone largely unrecorded. Also this display only shows the shafts and levels, not the stoped ground above the levels where the ore was removed. This is just the central area under Redruth and Camborne. There were lot of mines around Lands End/St Ives, St Austell, Caradon and the Tamar Valley.

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Re: The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Postby UncleEbenezer » November 27th, 2020, 10:21 pm

Nimrod103 wrote:
ReformedCharacter wrote:
The Central Mining District, Cornwall, UK - The model is complete with buildings (circa 1910), mine names and mine workings (circa 1998).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPid53ornow&t=0s

Incredible to see the extent of mining in Cornwall.

RC


Almost certainly a big underestimate because a lot of the early shallower mainly copper mining has gone largely unrecorded. Also this display only shows the shafts and levels, not the stoped ground above the levels where the ore was removed. This is just the central area under Redruth and Camborne. There were lot of mines around Lands End/St Ives, St Austell, Caradon and the Tamar Valley.


There's a huge legacy, including at worst patches of land so toxic that nothing will grow - bare and brown surrounded by the green of the woods. I understand [expletive deleted] is the main culprit.

A few years back I got into trouble for explaining to my (then) girlfriend's (then) six-year-old nephew that an old high chimney we were passing on a walk in the woods was part of a witch's cottage. It's normally not in this world, but if he came back at full moon when the clock struck thirteen, he could see it, and the witch would be at large.

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Re: The Central Mining District, Cornwall

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Postby Nimrod103 » November 29th, 2020, 10:56 pm

I'll never forget my one trip underground at South Crofty, 45 years ago. 900 metres down if I remember rightly. Hot, humid and wet, but not dusty. No place for people who suffer from claustraphobia. Well paid work for the miners at the time, but mines open and shut with the ups and downs in the price of tin. Maybe a future for lithium now.


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