Dark and damp, South Crofty tin mine in Britain's Cornwall could help revive a centuries old industry. Cornish Metals say the mine at Redruth, which operated continuously from 1592 until it became the ...

Some museums are staid, stuffy and static. But not the King Edward Mine Museum in Camborne, Cornwall. This museum contains a working tin mill that vividly recreates the heyday of tin mining in the ...

Bolstered by strengthening tin prices and improving fundamental support for tin consumption over the long term, Canadian mineral exploration firm Strongbow Exploration is set to revive a mining ...

A project aiming to restart tin mining in Cornwall has received a grant of more than £4m towards building workshops, stores and offices. The South Crofty tin mining project has had £4,190,500 awarded ...

St Agnes in Cornwall is a small but thriving village with a creative spirit that runs through its galleries, independent ...

For years, the tin price index in Europe depended largely on foreign supply. However, Vancouver-headquartered Cornish Mining plans to start pumping out groundwater from its South Crofty tin project as ...

(Sharecast News) - Tin mining is poised for a comeback in Cornwall after the UK government invested almost £29m to reopen the county's last tin mine, creating more than 1,000 jobs in the region. The ...

Cornwall’s last tin mine closed 20 years ago. Now growing demand for metals from ethical sources could spark a revival in one of Britain’s most deprived regions. Once the mining center of the world, ...

LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - The last British tin mine closed in 1998. Sign up here. When South Crofty ceased operating, it brought the curtain down on two millennia of tin mining in the southwestern ...

The last of Britain's tin mines were closed in the late 90s due to plummeting metal prices and languishing global demand. Now, with the advent of smartphones and electric vehicles, demand -- and ...

Mining is a boom-and-bust business. Consider the tin market: It collapsed in 1985, but has enjoyed a rebound over the years and has companies trying to reopen mines in Australia, Germany and Africa.