by Marcus Winter | Sep 18, 2020 | CMA News |
Cornish Lithium Ltd. (‘Cornish Lithium’ or ‘the Company’), an innovative mineral exploration company exploring for lithium and other battery metals in the South West of the UK, is pleased to announce results from preliminary sampling of lithium in deep geothermal...
by Marcus Winter | Aug 19, 2020 | CMA News |
Roche-based British Lithium Limited (BLL) has been awarded £500,000 of match grant funding from the government to progress its research and development of hard rock lithium extraction in the St Austell area of Cornwall. With an application success rate of around 6 per...
by CMA-Editor3 | Aug 4, 2020 | CMA News |
An independent metallurgical test facility in Cornwall has cemented itself as the leading facility in Europe, and their response to COVID - 19 is no exception. Wardell Armstrong’s test facilities caters to Clients worldwide delivering specialised services to the...
by CMA-Editor3 | Jun 18, 2020 | CMA News |
A grant has been provided to Falmouth University and the University of Exeter by the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) to establish an immersive reality facility at the Cornwall campus to assist businesses with immersive technologies. Immersive Business...
by Peter Whitbread-Abrutat | Nov 5, 2019 | CMA News |
Nitrate residues from explosives present in waste rock from LKAB's underground iron mining operations at Kiruna in north Sweden's Arctic wilderness are an environmental problem. The multi-partner NITREM project began in 2017 to install and test a novel bioreactor...
by CMA-Editor3 | Oct 7, 2019 | CMA News |
The Cornwall Mining Alliance is delighted to announce an association with the Cornwall Chamber of Commerce. The Cornwall Chamber of Commerce connects and supports all businesses based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, including those in minerals and mining, and...
by CMA-Editor3 | Sep 17, 2019 | CMA News |
Cornwall Mining Alliance member, MétAmpère, has recently conducted a lithium exploration programme in Cornwall as part of a project to build a quarry and processing plant capable of producing 20,000 tonnes of the highly sought-after metal each year – sufficient to...
by Chris Brough | Sep 11, 2019 | CMA News
Petrolab is pleased to announce some significant changes to its Automated Mineralogy (AM) service. Since the introduction of our AM service in 2015, we have built our reputation as a leading AM provider for the analysis of mine site and metallurgical test samples....
by Nick Datson | Sep 4, 2019 | CMA News
One of our Clients asked us to get involved with the remediation of East Wheal Lovell New Engine Shaft at Wendron, Helston, Cornwall. There was a condition to the planning permission granted by Cornwall Council that stated the plugging of the shaft had to overseen by...
by Kathy Hicks | Aug 29, 2019 | CMA News
Cornwall Mining Alliance members are invited to sign-up for a hand’s on workshop GIS training day on Tuesday 10 September. The one day course will be run by Clear Mapping Company, based in Penryn, and is kindly supported by Mining Alliance member, Wardell Armstrong...
by CMA-Editor3 | Sep 24, 2018 | CMA News |
An exciting new collaboration involving two Cornwall Mining Alliance members aims to study ancient mine workings in the cliffs at Droskyn, Perranporth. Last year the University of Exeter, Camborne School of Mines and Perranzabuloe Museum, together with the Parish...
by CMA-Editor3 | Aug 29, 2018 | CMA News |
Cornwall Mining Alliance (CMA) member, Cornish Lithium Ltd is helping the Julian Baring Scholarship Fund to organise a sponsored walk of Cornwall’s mining landscape on the 13th – 15th September 2018. The Julian Baring Scholarship is a UK registered charity, set up to...
by CMA-Editor3 | Aug 9, 2018 | CMA News |
As part of a European Social Fund (ESF) sponsored scheme, the University of Exeter is offering FREE short courses and taster sessions aimed at increasing knowledge and developing skills in the workplace and also to help you to prepare to enter a different job sector...
by CMA-Editor3 | Jun 8, 2018 | CMA News |
Cornish mining equipment manufacturing company wins major order to provide Multi Gravity Separators to tin tailings project in Peru. A Cornwall Mining Alliance member, Gravity Mining Ltd, is set to supply Multi Gravity Separators (MGS) to Minsur, a Peruvian mining...
by CMA-Editor3 | Apr 18, 2018 | CMA News |
It is with much sadness that the Cornwall Mining Alliance notes the recent passing of two of our members, Paul Burton (Piran Mining Research) and Dr Nick Le Boutillier. Both Paul and Nick were long-standing, respected and active members of the mining and minerals...
by CMA-Editor3 | Mar 12, 2018 | CMA News |
On Friday 23rd March Cornwall Mining Alliance member, Wheal Martyn, is holding their fourth Industrial Heritage Conference - “Industrial Heritage Buildings and Collections – Challenges and Experiences”. The conference will explore how our incredible historic...
by CMA-Editor3 | Jan 14, 2018 | CMA News |
Cornwall Mining Alliance (CMA) member, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, is convening a symposium on advancements in tungsten and tantalum processing techniques. The conference is free of charge to attend and will be hosted at Heartlands, Pool – a mining...
by CMA-Editor3 | Nov 26, 2017 | CMA News |
Images from “A Celebration of Cornish Mining: from local expertise to global opportunities” – a conference and networking event to mark the centenary of the Cornish Chamber of Mines and Minerals held on Thursday 7th September 2017 at Heartlands,...
by CMA-Editor3 | Nov 3, 2017 | CMA News, Research & Development |
¡VAMOS! is an EU Horizon 2020 research and development project evaluating innovative methods to exploit and rehabilitate abandoned mineral sites. Last month the ¡VAMOS! team carried out pioneering field trials for a new, novel mining technique at an Imerys Minerals...
by CMA-Editor3 | Jun 7, 2017 | CMA News |
Cornwall Council is inviting members of the Cornwall Mining Alliance and related stakeholders to comment on the draft Minerals Safeguarding Plan for Cornwall. Cornwall Council is publishing the Minerals Safeguarding Development Plan Document (DPD) for an eight week...
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…