TIN MINE CLAY

A project using clay dug from Cornish tin mines. By Alison Cooke and Dominique Fuglistaller.

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Internal maps to site of white clay at Rosevale Mine.

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Hand processed tin tailings

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Former tin miners at Geevor Museum. The miners were asked to squeeze a lump of Geevor tailings, the waste product from extractcing cassiterite (tin ore). These were cast and dripped with tin.

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Tin Mine Clay. The tailings from tin mine processing at Geevor. Dominique Fuglistaller preparing to take impressions of the hands of former tin miners.

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Today we dug, soaked and sieved tin mine tailings from Geevor.

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Tin Mine Clay. Brown clay dug from Rosevale Mine by the Rosevale Historical Mining Society. Firing tests. Short and tricky to hold together much like Geevor Slimes clay.

https://www.rosevalemine.com

http://www.geevor.com

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Tin Mine Clay. Photographs of the ground around Geevor.

http://www.geevor.com

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Tin Mine Clay. Collecting white clay from Rosevale Mine in Zennor. A huge thanks to Adam Sharpe, Tony and Wayne from the Rosevale Historical Mining Society who are removing wagons of material from an old winze to expose a lower level of the mine.

. https://www.rosevalemine.com

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TIN MINE CLAY Geevor slimes fired to 1212°C

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TIN MINE CLAY - tailings from Geevor tin mine added to water and painted onto white clay from Rosevale Mine. Fired at 1250°C

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TIN MINE CLAY - experiments with clay from Geevor tin mine tailings. Barely holding together. Extruded and cast.

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TIN MINE CLAY - Structure test pieces with commercial clay. 

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My tabletop “Museum of Mud” at the Art Workers Guild. Clay from 5 x different sites fired and melted.

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Tin Mine Tests with commercial black clay

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Alison Cooke

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TIN MINE CLAY - holes in ground at Geevor Mine.