#tin mining

[thisisengland]

Wheal Coates tin mine, Cornwall.

[rosewind2007]

I come from a Cornish mining family, though my father was most certainly NOT Cornish he was a mining engineer.

He made amazing machines: they could separate tin from mud (silver, gold, diamonds even); and oil from water…goats and sheep too, but only if you were determined…

I wear a cousin Jack pin made of tin, for my sister I had made a pin with a panning shovel, a pick and one of my father’s machines…

I think it’s cool

[thewondermentofillustration]

Harold Harvey - St Just Tin Miners, 1935, oil on canvas Harold C. Harvey (1874 - 1941) was a Cornish impressionist painter. He painted in oils and watercolours. Harvey was born in Penzance, Cornwall, the son of a bank manager. Harvey studied painting at the Penzance Art School under the Irish born painter, Norman Garstin. He then attending the Academie Julian in Paris between 1894 and 1896. He began his career exploring social realism and impressionism by painting local fishing and agricultural scenes. Harvey married Gertrude Bodinnar in 1911 in Newlyn. The couple had met when Gertrude posed for Harvey. She also became a painter, and was particularly interested in fabrics. Over the years, Harvey expanded his repertoire to include a wide range of subjects such as still lives, interiors, portraits, landscapes, religious themes, and the industrial landscape of Cornwall.

[danny-darkness]

Danny Darke Photography © 2019

[svenson777]

Darstellung des Feuersetzens im Zinnbergbau  (Presentation of setting fire in tin mining) In: Balthasar Rösler: "Speculum metallurgiae politissimum" (Hellpolierter Bergbau-Spiegel). Dresden, 1700. ~ ...going underground...

[thesteveyates]

April's cool.

April’s cool.

Pathfinder build project blog, April 2022. It’s early morning and early April 2022, this morning came as a cold surprise when i woke up to a hard frost coupled with thick mist in the valley and a cold northerly wind ; it’s far too cold to get anything done on the actual build, not that i can get much done because i don’t have the timber for the next stage of the bottom work. Today i thought i…

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[thejewellerybox]

'Cousin Jack' Cornish tin brooch

Brooch representing the tools used in the early days of mining. ‘Cousin Jack’ was the name given to Cornish miners who migrated to various places around the world, taking their mining skills with them.

Handcrafted from 100% Cornish tin, extracted from the South Crofty mine prior to closure in 1998. £43.50

[thejewellerybox]

Solid Silver Cornish Tin Mine charm, Douglas Hughes, £75.00