Tin mining began early in the Bronze Age, as bronze is a copper-tin alloy. Tin is a relatively rare element in the Earth's crust, with approximately 2...

The tin mining industry on Dartmoor, Devon, England, is thought to have originated in pre-Roman times, and continued right through to the 20th century...

mica, monazite, sand, silica sand, struverite and tin. Tin mining is one of the earliest type of mining operated in Malaysia, starting in the 1820s in Perak...

exploitation of cassiterite. Tin, and later copper, were the most commonly extracted metals. Some tin mining continued long after the mining of other metals had...

Tin mining in Britain took place from prehistoric times, during Bronze Age Britain, until the 20th century. Mention of tin mining in Britain was made...

the global economy. Tin mining supplanted silver by the twentieth century and the central element of Bolivian mining, and wealthy tin barons played an important...

surrounding sea suffers considerable environmental damage from its thriving tin mining industry which operates on- and offshore. Bangka is the largest landmass...

are found in the tin mines of Bolivia, where it is found in crystallised hydrothermal veins. Rwanda has a nascent cassiterite mining industry. Fighting...

study of ancient tin such as the limited archaeological remains of placer mining, the destruction of ancient mines by modern mining operations, and the...

bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, the so-called "tin cry" can be heard as a result of twinning in tin crystals. Tin is a post-transition...

Stannary law (derived from the Latin: stannum for tin) is the body of English law that governs tin mining in Cornwall and Devon; although no longer of much...

with Cornwall developing its tin mining industry and becoming a duchy in 1337. During the Industrial Revolution, the tin and copper mines were expanded...

of tin ore likely to be recovered. Where sufficient water is available the most economical method of mining the deposit is by dredging. A mining dredge...

Hydraulic mining is a form of mining that uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment. In the placer mining of gold or tin, the...

Han Chin Pet Soo (闲真别墅) is Malaysia's first Hakka tin mining museum and is the number one attraction in Ipoh on TripAdvisor. Located on the edge of Ipoh's...

nineteenth-century census returns, most of the villagers were engaged in tin-mining, either in the stream-works of Wheal Virgin, close to London Apprentice...

Tinner may refer to: Friedrich Tinner, a Swiss engineer A person involved in tin mining who came under the jurisdiction of the former Stannary Courts...

landform. During British colonial rule, Jos became an important centre for tin mining when the colonialists discovered huge deposits of cassiterite, the main...

Several Cornish mining words are in use in English language mining terminology, such as costean, gunnies, and vug. Since the decline of tin mining, agriculture...

of the stannary organisations (and tinners) with respect to the law. Cornish Stannary Parliament Dartmoor tin-mining Lord Warden of the Stannaries Revived...

northeast. Perak's capital city, Ipoh, was known historically for its tin-mining activities until the price of the metal dropped, severely affecting the...

the Latin word for tin and the source of its chemical symbol Sn. Stannum may also refer to: Stannum, New South Wales, small tin mining village Fusinus stannum...

International Tin Council (ITC) was an organisation which acted on behalf of major tin producers and consumers to control the international tin market. An...

Malayan tin mining industry. The last surviving dredge can be found at Batu Gajah along Jalan Tanjung Tualang. It belongs to Southern Malaya Tin Dredging...

shovel to the new hearth. The Great Thunderstorm, Widecombe Dartmoor tin-mining E. W. Martin (1958). Dartmoor. London: Robert Hale. p. 19. Eric Hemery...

she applied Marxist theory to analyze structural violence in the lives of tin miners. In the preface to We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us (1979) she...

Chinese played a leading role in the tin-mining industry. The Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1780 adversely affected the tin trade, however, and many Chinese miners...

Lumpur earliest satellite towns. During the initial tin mining growth of Kuala Lumpur, many tin mines were explored and opened north of Kuala Lumpur...

as a tin mining community when the British company Pahang Consolidated Company Limited (PCCL) set up the tin mining industry there after mining activities...

000.) His final visit was in 1789. Mining in Gwennap is an industry stretching back to prehistoric times when tin streaming in the Carnon Valley is believed...