#cornish mining

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Maybe fiendish, maybe friendly, knockers are mine-dwelling earth spirits of Cornish folklore. Belief in the fellows followed Cornish immigrants out of Cornwall, lasting up into the mid-20th century.

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Shaft

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The answer is arsenic?

Week in Brief (18–22 December)

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Scientists from the University of Sheffield, UK, have discovered that arsenic can control uranium migration in the environment.

Studying the abandoned South Terras Mine, near St Austell, Cornwall, the team found that uranium from the mine had combined with arsenic forming meta-zeunerite in the topsoil.

Dr Claire Corkhill, lead author of the study, commented, ‘The location of the South Terras mine, and the surrounding area, is well known for mining of arsenic-bearing minerals. Natural weathering of arsenic and uranium minerals in the spoil heaps and soils of South Terras, has released both arsenic and uranium, which form the highly insoluble secondary mineral meta-zeunerite. Locking up the uranium in this mineral structure means that it cannot migrate in the environment.’

This could have implications for the management of disused uranium mines, as well as the sites of historical nuclear testing and nuclear accidents.

To find out more visit, bit.ly/2BdRclH

To read Multi-scale investigation of uranium attenuation by arsenic at an abandoned uranium mine, South Terras, visit go.nature.com/2BGRKjw

In other news:

– UK environment Secretary Michael Gove has outlined a plan for tackling plastic waste 

– Columbia engineers have developed a floating solar fuels rig for seawater electrolysis

– Researchers at The City University of New York have discovered a process by which two-layer graphene becomes a diamond-hard material on impact 

– A new technology of energy generation from bituminous coal 

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Snowfall on the red sands

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Cornish mine chimney 

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For AVEN_Kernow I will go back to St.Dennis to see if I can find Josh again whom I interviewed in 2013 as part of ‘Inherit the Wind’

Here Josh on the street where he lives , in the council estate in St.Dennis China Clay Country, Cornwall St. Dennis is a quiet place, there are only a few things you can do…we have a skate park and Flatty and pointy…you’ve got mud jumps up top and all…the skate park’s been build now and everyone goes there.We’ve got 3 shops, 5pubs…back in the days we had the cinema down here. We’ve got 2 chippies and the post office.I’m 16, I went to Brannel school and my dream job would be probably road working, building, construction, that kind of thing. I worked with my dad a couple of times and since then I liked it, to help him out and all, putting down the yellow lines, it’s fun.I had my first tattoo back in December, the second one a week later, and the other one a couple of months ago…I always wanted one, ever since I was young so I just went and got one. What I thought I’d do is that each star represents a bit of my family, that’s my mom, my dad, my granddad, my gran that died, there’s my sister and I got two space there left, I don’t know for what yet, and there’s my bike helmet and a tribal one. I paid for all of them.