Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Volume 5The Society, 1843 - Geology Vol. 6, includes the society's annual reports for 1844-46. |
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Appearance and Composition Appearance of Rock Average distance Beche beds BOASE Botallack Breage Camborne Carclaze Carne Chacewater chlorite cleavage Consolidated Mines Cook's-kitchen copper lodes copper pyrites Cornwall Geo cross-course cross-veins crystalline crystals decomposed deep blue direction district Dolcoath earthy brown iron East Wheal Crofty eastern elvan elvan-course fathoms deep feet felspar flucan Fowey gossan grained granite Gwallon Helston Herland Ibid Idem inches iron pyrites irregular joints Lode heaved Lodes dipping Marazion masses metalliferous mica mineral Mining Review Name and Depth north lode Number of instances occur oxide of tin PARISH Phil Poldice Polgooth Polladras porphyritic portions quantities quartz quartzose slate R. W. Fox Redruth Report right hand Saint Agnes Saint Ives schorl side simply intersected slaty clay south lode spots surface Table tin lodes Tincroft Ting Tang Trans traversed Treskerby United Mines vitreous copper wall Wheal Buller Wheal Damsel Wheal Friendship Wheal Unity whilst
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Page 89 - To one unaccustomed to a mining country, the view from Cairn Marth, which is a rocky eminence of seven hundred and fifty-seven feet, is full of novelty. Over a surface neither mountainous nor flat, but diversified from sea to sea by a constant series of low undulating hills and vales, the farmer and the miner seem to be occupying the country in something like the confusion of warfare. The situations of the Consolidated Mines, the United Mines, the Poldice Mine, etc. etc., are marked out by spots...
Page 89 - Early in the morning the scene becomes animated. From the scattered cottages, as far as the eye can reach, men, women, and children of all ages begin to creep out ; and it is curious to observe them all converging' like bees towards the small hole at which they are to enter their mine. On their arrival, the women and children, whose duty it is to dress or clean the ore, repair to the rough sheds under which they work, while the men, having stripped and put on their underground clothes, (which are...
Page 1 - THOMAS, R. Report on a survey of the mining district of Cornwall, from Chasewater to Camborne.
Page 90 - ... clean and fresh, and seem so happy, that one would scarcely fancy they had worked all day in darkness and confinement. The old men, however, tired with their work, and sick of the follies and vagaries of the outside and the inside of this mining world, plod their way in sober silence — probably thinking of their supper.
Page 11 - But when standing beneath the base of the cliff, and in that part of the mine where but nine feet of rock stood between us and the ocean , the heavy roll of the...
Page 365 - ... observation of the magnet, the temperature of the air had been raised by the presence of the observers, and their two candles, to 49°. 7, the thermometer in the rock, which was subject to no change of air whatsoever, was found to have risen to 48°.71, 48°.73.
Page 90 - ... sometimes pleased and sometimes offended with what happens, smile or scream as circumstances may require. As the different members of the group approach their respective cottages, their numbers of course diminish, and the individual who lives farthest from the mines, like the solitary survivor of a large family, performs the last few yards of his journey by himself. On arriving at home, the first employment is to wheel a small cask in a light barrow for water...
Page 89 - ... tents. This lifeless mass follows the course of the main lode (which, as has been said, generally runs east and west) ; and from it, in different directions, minor branches of the same barren rubbish diverge through the fertile country, like the streams of lava from a volcano. The miner being obliged to have a shaft for air at every hundred yards, and the Stannary Laws allowing him freely to pursue his game, his hidden path is commonly to be traced by a series of heaps of ' deads, ' which rise...
Page 89 - ... slaty poisonous rubbish, thrown up in rugged heaps, which, at a distance, give the place the appearance of an encampment of soldiers
Page 123 - Widdecombe, indeed, seemed destined to suffer by the convulsion of the elements. The most fearful of these sufferings was alluded to in an extract from Mr. Bray's old Journal, given in a former letter. It deserves, however, a more particular notice ; and the following account, founded...