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Offering for sale quality antique and contemporary minerals specimens from Cornwall and Devon UK also mining related books.
Cornish and Devon Cassiterite specimens. Cornish and British Minerals. I have been field collecting Cornish minerals for over fifty years with several breaks while bringing up a growing family and starting my engineering business.
The history of mining in Cornwall and west Devon stretches back into prehistory when the region was uniquely placed to supply the tin vital for the production of bronze and pewter in Britain. Explore how mining in Cornwall and West Devon began.
Mining in Cornwall and Devon, in the southwest of Britain, is thought to have begun in the early-middle Bronze Age with the exploitation of cassiterite. Tin, and later copper, were the most commonly extracted metals. Some tin mining continued long after the mining of other metals had become unprofitable, but ended in the late 20th century.
A monthly updated list of Cornish and Devon is now available, many new finds from obscure locations and several rare species have been added, we always send the very best available and many have been subject to our Raman testing.
Offering for sale quality antique and contemporary minerals specimens from Cornwall and Devon UK also mining related books.
Jun 11, 2021 · Cornwall's economic past was built on centuries of mining and fishing wealth, and the seeds of new industries are being sown, but its lifeblood now is tourism.
