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Title
Chimney Stack South Kit Hill Mine Cornwall
Artist
Richard Brookes
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Photograph
Description
The lone chimney stack of South Kit Hill tin mine stands sentinel like high over the surrounding countryside with views as far as the coast at Plymouth. It serves as a poignant reminder to the incredible mining heritage of this area over centuries especially following the Industrial Revolution with mechanisation and then steam power in Victorian times. The chimney served a calciner oven just down the hill which burned off impurities in the crushed tin ore. Toxic fumes were taken by a stone flue from the oven to the chimney to be released high into the air. This mine opened in 1856 and ran in two separate periods until it closed in 1886 due to the difficulty of mining though the hard granite. Latterly it became part of Cornwall Great Consols mining group.
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October 12th, 2018
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