Cornish Mining

Geevor Underground

Geevor at Grass

Life at the edge

Rocks and Metals

Rocks and Metals

large rcok with chimney in background

The ground beneath your feet is a natural treasure store, containing rocks, metals and minerals which have been essential to our everyday lives for thousands of years. 

Dig deeper to discover why tin is found at Geevor and learn about other useful metals and beautiful minerals found in Cornwall.

 

Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of Pat Comber

 

Products and Properties

Click to see a larger version of this imagetin toy cars, tin boxes and tin buckets

Tin Plate: One of the most important uses of tin was to coat or ‘plate’ other metals. 


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Tin (Sn)

Click to see a larger version of this imagethree small bottles of tin concentrate

Tin is one of the few metals which has been used and traded by humans for more than 5000 years.


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The Rock Cycle

Click to see a larger version of this imagediagram of the rock cycle

The Earth’s rocks do not stay the same forever. 


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Mineral collectors

Click to see a larger version of this imagea geevor sampler working underground taking a sample of rock with his pick

Cornwall has long been known for having a huge variety of minerals.


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Comment left by Dave Rowlinson on 2009-10-14 17:54:00

Great website, very informative with lots of great images. Well done

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