Noticias

We are thrilled to announce that last week’s charity auction of the last ingot to be smelted from South Crofty tin was a resounding success. Having garnered huge interest from press and local collectors alike...

On Monday 11th August 1980, a young Clifford Rice began what would become a lifelong career in the mining industry when he started...

We can now confirm the date of the charity auction of the last 28lb tin ingot made from South Crofty tin. The live auction will be held...

Por fin se ha fijado la fecha provisional para la subasta benéfica del último lingote de estaño de 28 libras de South Crofty, fundido a principios de este año...

Although the main use of XRF in the laboratory remains mining and environmental analysis, we often receive requests to carry out non-destructive testing on items that...

The final limited edition South Crofty tin ingots are now finished and ready for release. As mentioned previously, these are traditional...

We announced in our blog item entitled ‘Cornish History In The Making’ last September our plans to produce tin ingots from the last ore mined at South Crofty and processed at Wheal Jane mill in 1998. Now, we have...

A previous blog item entitled “The Last Cornish Tin Smelter” back in March included plans to smelt the last South Crofty tin concentrate from ore mined in 1998...

As a laboratory that has a particularly close relationship with tin mining, smelting and analysis, it is possibly no surprise that we have recently been asked to undertake a study into the purity of tin ingots destined for scrap.