Blue Hills Cornish TinIf you want to see how rock is turned into tin, don't go to
Tolgus Tin, come here and see it done for real.
This is a small commercial enterprise and now the only place in the UK where they turn lumps of rock into shiny tin.
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The different kinds of tin-bearing rocks are explained. You can then you see the whole process in action.
A waterwheel powers the hammers that pulverise the rock; the tin-bearing slurry is separated on a vibrating table
and the tin-bearing particles are heated to liberate the tin
(though they don't actually smelt during the summer: elf & safety).
Some of the rock comes from the hills, some from the beach - the sea having "mined" tin-bearing rocks
out of the cliffs. Very interesting.
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