P number: | P208013 |
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Old photograph number: | A08091 |
Caption: | The mill, Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. |
Description: | Geevor Mine, Pendeen. Geevor Mine, the mill. The mine ore is crushed to 2.5 inches and then washed in a 4-barrel rotating washer (far end, left) which delivers three sizes. The coarsest is passed to a conveyor belt for hand-picking of waste rock (female labour, left). The hand-picked ore goes (by central conveyor belt) to cone crushers and is then screened to half inch, the oversize being recrushed and the less than half-inch passing (by right-hand belt) to the storage bin. The mine straddles the Land's End Granite - country rock contact. The contact lies near the collar of the Victory Shaft where locally it dips at about 20 degrees to the north-west. The main lodes have steep dips and trend west-north-west to east-south-east and north-north-west to south-south-east. |
Date taken: | 01/08/1945 |
Photographer: | Rhodes, J. |
Copyright statement: | Crown |
X longitude/easting: | 137500 |
Y latitude/northing: | 34500 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 195.93 KB; 1000 x 700 pixels; 85 x 59 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 185 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Metalliferous mining, tin |
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