1943 Dakota over Cornwall

A rallying call to get cameras at the ready if you live in or are Christmassing in Cornwall:
1943 Dakota

Apparently it is a. BT-67. www.bellgeo.com/aircraft

CornwallPhil wrote:

A rallying call to get cameras at the ready if you live in or are Christmassing in Cornwall:
1943 Dakota

Unfortunately do not think it will be flying over this part of North Cornwall. More granite and slate than lithium.

Shoot! Anyone want to buy a tin mine?

John, the Lithium is in the Granite.

Peter K, yes and Cornwall will be at the forefront of another mining boom!

PeterTheEater, they are also looking at reopening some of the tin mines as the value of it has risen drastically since the last ones closed. What is also exciting is that extraction methods have advanced leaps and bounds so the mining will not have the environmental impact it had in Cornwall in the C18th & C19th centuries.

For the lithium extraction from the geothermal waters in the granite the hole underground is the size of a dinner plate. They are also looking at extracting the lithium from the mica in the granite in a hard rock project. As there is plenty of this lying around in the china clay waste in Cornwall as well as in the granite itself underground the mining world firmly has its eyes on Cornwall once more. The next five to ten years will be very interesting.

They have also been 3D mapping Cornwall's geology and old mine workings, which is what the Dakota is contributing towards.

Phil, watch out for the Chinese.......

Tks Phil will keep the camera handy.

PETERTHEEATER wrote:

Phil, watch out for the Chinese.......

It's getting the mandarins in London to grasp that! Pun intended!!