When work began at the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall, Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne, the first English settlement in America had only just been established, and the world’s trade with the ...

Jamie Hinch receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council's Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership. The woman’s eyes blazed as I scanned the feedback form she was showing me.

After the belts whirred to a halt and workers left Cornwall’s last operating tin mine for a final time in March 1998, a question was painted on its outer wall: “Cornish lads are fishermen and Cornish ...

A major Cornwall mining project has received backing from the government's new investment vehicle, the National Wealth Fund. Cornish Metals, the mineral exploration company working to revive tin ...

A Cornwall mining company looking to revive production at an historic tin mine in the Duchy has floated on AIM. Cornish Metals acquired South Crofty, near Pool, in 2016 and says the site could be ...