Geo-resources, Shared Prosperity and a Centre for Critical Minerals
The Deep Digital Cornwall team wish to invite you to attend a workshop on “Geo-resources, Shared Prosperity and a Centre for Critical Minerals” at the Penryn Campus. The workshop will include (delicious) complimentary refreshments and be held at 1-3pm on the 3rd of...
Cornwall Heritage Trust Supports School Trips Through Grants Scheme
Cornwall Heritage Trust is encouraging primary schools in Cornwall, which are struggling with the rising costs of transport for class trips, to apply for support through its School Transport Grants Scheme in partnership with Cornish Lithium. The independent charity...
Chemical Analysis In The Region
Camborne School of Mines is are carrying out a project to review the analytical facilities available locally and determine what state-of-the-art developments might be implemented in the future – in businesses and the region’s universities. The aim is to ensure that we...
Recruitment Opportunity – Deep Digital Cornwall Project
The Deep Digital Cornwall project led by Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter is recruiting a part time (0.6 fte) Business Development Manager from August 2022 to 30 June 2023 to consider how best to build the DDC hub and cluster in the region. Further...
NEW paper; Geometallurgy of Trace Elements in the Hrazdan Iron Ore Deposit
NEW paper; Geometallurgy of Trace Elements in the Hrazdan Iron Ore Deposit
Webinar on ‘Exploring World Class Landscape Restoration’
In January, during the latest UK Coronavirus lockdown, I presented a webinar for the Institution of Environmental Sciences on Exploring World Class Landscape Restoration. This was a re-visit of my travelling fellowship awarded by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust a...
Positive Project Progress & Exciting Opportunities at Cornish Lithium
Cornish Lithium Ltd is an innovative mineral exploration and development company focussed on the environmentally responsible extraction of lithium from geothermal water and hard rock sources in Cornwall, UK. The Company is pleased to announce updates from both its...
Cornish Lithium Announces the Co-production of Lithium and Kaolin in Association with Imerys and HSSMI
Cornish Lithium has announced the formation of a consortium involving Cornish Lithium, Imerys Minerals Limited, and sustainable manufacturing innovation consultancy, HSSMI to assess the potential for Co-production of Lithium and China Clay in Cornwall (CLiCCC...
MP Visits British Lithium Pilot Plant
Local MP Steve Double toured the pilot plant being built by British Lithium near St Austell. The pilot plant will be the first in the UK to make lithium carbonate directly from rocks mined in Cornwall. As the Conservative Member of Parliament for St Austell and...
British Lithium – Largest lithium drilling round yet
St Austell-based British Lithium Limited (BLL) has embarked on its fourth and largest round of drilling to define the extent of the lithium carbonate resource already identified in previous exploration work last year. Seventeen large diameter...
£4 million Deep Digital Cornwall project launched to unlock underground environment
The underground environment is the subject of a major new £4 million project launched to create a world-leading cluster of research-intensive digital businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. The pioneering project, called Deep Digital Cornwall, led by the...
Cornish Lithium’s second drilling campaign targets lithium in hard rock at Trelavour
Cornish Lithium Ltd, the innovative mineral exploration and development company based in Cornwall, UK, is pleased to announce that the Company has now commenced its second drilling campaign at its Trelavour hard rock lithium project near St Austell. Drilling commenced...
Cornish Metals to float on AIM to raise £5 million to advance the United Downs Copper-Tin project
Cornish Metals Inc. has announced its intention to float on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market) of the London Stock Exchange. The company aims to raise £5 million to advance the United Downs copper-tin project and expects to be admitted to AIM in February 2021....
Mining Business Support Opportunities from Satellite Applications Catapult
As part of the UK Space Agency’s funded ‘Regional Support Package’, designed to help boost regional businesses to harness the power of space technologies and satellite applications, the South West Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications is currently offering...
A Geothermal Alliance of Cornish Companies
Members of the Cornwall Mining Alliance have formed a Geothermal Alliance to help catalyse the development of shallow geothermal projects in the region, including minewater heat recovery. The Southwest Geothermal Alliance (SGA) has been established to encourage and...
Using Satellites to Detect Pollution from Old Mines
An exciting project involving a collaboration of Cornwall Mining Alliance members is looking at ways to track the pollution of rivers by mines using remote sensing. The team is testing the technique on abandoned mine sites in Cornwall. Most environmental monitoring...
British Lithium makes three key appointments
A senior geologist, a metallurgist and a principal engineer have started work with the British Lithium Limited (BLL) team in Cornwall. Dr Robert Gruar, Dr Klass Peter Van Der Wielen and Robin Kelly are all experts in their respective fields – adding considerable depth...
Geologists solve puzzle that could predict valuable rare earth element deposits
Pioneering new research has helped geologists solve a long-standing puzzle that could help pinpoint new, untapped concentrations of some the most valuable rare earth deposits. A team of geologists, led by Professor Frances Wall from the Camborne School of Mines, have...
Fantastic, and really interesting, my mate Josh and I lived in those workings back in the summer of 1968 and…
Part of Cornwall's rich Mining Heritage which sadly many people living here today do not know ever existed. A very…
Coming from a very old Perranporth family with links to mining though my grandfather and great grandfather I am very…
[…] honour of being number 100 goes to Peter Sheppard and Drillserve Ltd – good to have you on board…
[…] a new display at the museum. The project will combine the technical and academic expertise of Camborne School of…