Upcoming Events

Natural Capital for Clean Growth Building a framework around the South West’s natural assets in onshore and offshore clean energy. The South West has a wealth of untapped potential as a natural resource centre with a national offer, particularly for emerging sectors. How can these assets be harnessed for clean growth? In this session Professor Iain Stewart and Dr Ian Selby from the Sustainable Earth Institute will take a national view, but with an eye to the remarkable onshore and…

Geothermal update and networking event from the Cornwall Institute of Engineers on 6th February 2020. Including speakers from United Downs, Eden and Kensa Heat Pumps. Geothermal heat and power are important sources of renewable energy for Cornwall. This evening will provide updates from some of the exciting projects underway in the region and then a chance to discuss more informally in the Upper Stannery afterwards. Lectures, unless otherwise indicated, will take place in the Chapel Theatre, Penryn Campus, Cornwall. Please…

A tour of Wheal Jane Earth Science Park to visit the businesses that have brought post-mining regeneration to this site. Tour will be presented by Alison Allen, technical director of Wardell Armstrong International. Time TBC.

Lecture from the Cornwall Institute of Engineers on 27th February 2020. MAKING TAILINGS SAFE - Women in Mining (UK) Panel Discussion Karen Hudson-Edwards, Professor of Sustainable Mining CSM; Lucy Crane, WIM (UK); Richard Elmer, Knight Piesold; Morwenna Rogers, Paterson & Cooke. A panel discussion on traditional and novel methods for making tailings dams safer, and for reducing the potentially negative environmental effects of tailings on ecosystems and humans. Lectures, unless otherwise indicated, will take place in the Chapel Theatre, Penryn…

Lecture from the Cornwall Institute of Engineers on 26th March 2020. TITLE TBC Charlie Adcock, Event Horizon. An engineering company with a specialisation in the use of explosive materials and experience in a wide range of fields from aerospace to explosive ordnance disposal and from demolition and salvage to special effects. Lectures, unless otherwise indicated, will take place in the Chapel Theatre, Penryn Campus, Cornwall. Please check the lecture details carefully for alternative venues and time. Directions to Penryn Campus…

Lecture from the Cornwall Institute of Engineers on 9th April 2020. THE UNEXMIN PROJECT: ROBOT SUBMERSIBLES INVESTIGATE GEOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN ECTON MINE, STAFFORDSHIRE Stephen Henley, Resources Computing International Ltd The AGM will precede this talk, commencing at 5.30pm. ALL WELCOME. Submersibles developed in the EU Horizon 2020 UNEXMIN project have been used in Ecton Mine, one of the deepest 18th century copper mins but flooded since 1858, to help answer questions about its geology and history. All investigations…

Rosevale Mine is a privately funded underground tin mine restoration project, carried out since the mid 1970s by a small group of enthusiasts. The tour will be conducted by experienced guides. The aim is to see the techniques and equipment used for hard rock mining and to appreciate the working environment of a traditional Cornish mine.