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unusual facts about tin mining


Cape Cornwall

Cape Cornwall Mine, a tin mine on Cape Cornwall, operated intermittently between 1838 and 1883.


Stanley Frederick Utz

Married in 1935 to Janet Cuthbertson Saxton, Utz then began to diversify into tin mining in Malaya and Thailand as well as becoming managing director of several businesses and helping found International Pacific Corporation Ltd.

Todpool

During the 19th century, Todpool was an important site for tin mining due to its proximity to Poldice mine.


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Branxholm, Tasmania

Tin mining gradually declined to be replaced by timber cutting and in 1970 the first hop fields were planted.

Breage, Cornwall

Major-General David Tyacke, the last Commanding Officer of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry was born and buried in Breage, where his family had been involved in tin-mining since the early 18th century.

Clifford Kwan-Gett

Kwan-Gett was born as Clifford Gett in 1934 in Emmaville, New South Wales, a small tin mining town in the Australian bush.

Laskar Pelangi

The movie follows a group of 10 schoolboys and their two inspirational teachers as they struggle with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra.

Muntok

By approval of sultan Badaruddin I of Palembang Darussalam, Encek Wan Akub ordered his nephew Wan Serin to go to seek tin miners in Johor, Siam and Campa and start tin mining on Bangka Island.