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A
Geevor Miners Tale
Stories
of life underground in Geevor in the 1970s - 1980s
By
Ian Davey (ex Geevor Miner). Paperback - 18 pages |
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A
Day in the Life of a Stoper
A
typical day in the life of a Geevor miner
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Ian Davey (ex Geevor Miner).Paperback - 18 pages |
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The
Tudor Tin Industry
The Tinners & Tinworks of Penwith
& Kerrier Stannary
Under
the Tudor rules of England, Cornish tinners witnessed a
great number of changes and by the end of the 16th century
the world of the Cornish tinner was changed beyond recognition.
This is an indepth look at early Cornish mining.
Edited
By Allen Buckley. Paperback - 202 pages |
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Methods
of Tin and Copper Dressing in Cornwall
James
henderson presented this paper in 1858 and provides us today
with an
easy
to understand description of ore processing in Cornish mines
at that time
By
James Henderson. Transcribed by Lynne Mayers Paperback -
28 pages |
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Mining
in a Medieval Landscape
The Royal Silver Mines of the Tamar
Valley
This
book explores an industry that was of profound impotance
both
in terms of the local economy and the history of mining
nationally:
the late-medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferris in the
Tamar Valley.
By
Stephen Rippon, Peter Claughton and Chris Smart . Paperback
- 207 pages |
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Great
Rock
Devon's Last Metal Mine
The
Great Rock Mine worked from the late 19th century to1969.
It mined micaceous haematite, a form of Iron oxide which
proved
invaluable as a componenet of rust resisting paints
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Tony Brooks.Paperback - 180 pages |
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Hard
Graft
Botallack Mine in the Twentieth
Century
Botallack
has, for two centuries and more, been one
of the most famous and romantic of all Cornish mines.
Yet most of what can now be seen at Botallack dates from the
later
and unsuccessful
reworking of the mine between 1907 and 1914.
This book looks in deatil at that final phase of Botallack's
history.
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Peter Joseph. Paperback - 238 pages |
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The
Mechanical Methods of Dressing Tin Ore Etc
Excursion in Cornwall 1857
Translated
and updated by Tony Clarke this amazing book
by French mining engineer Leon Moissenet gives us a
rare
insight
in to tin processing in the mid 19th century
By
Leon Moissenet.Hardback - 173 pages |
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