Mining News – Late March 2026

The South West firm planning to re-open the world’s second-largest tungsten mine has reached another critical stage in the project after signing two supply agreements.

Plymouth-based Tungsten West said the contracts covered major additions for its improvement plan which would enable it to restart production at the Hemerdon tungsten and tin mine in Plympton later this year.

The firm was appointed Coventry-headquartered infrastructure specialist Duo Group, which also has a base in Exeter, to carry out an engineering procurement and construction works package for the mine’s new build crushing, screening and ore sorter facility, while Australian mining equipment firm Gekko Systems will supply an in-line pressure jigs system and associated infrastructure.

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Test drilling in what was once described as the world’s richest tin mine is to start later this year following the completion of a £2m fundraising by exploration firm Tamar Minerals.

The firm said the investment meant it can now commence work at Great Wheal Vor, a group of 26 former tin and copper mines in Cornwall.

Mining ceased on the site near Helston in 1878 but London-headquartered Tamar, which has ambitions to mine the South West’s historic copper and tin belt, now owns mineral rights to part of the area, which has not been mined since 1878.

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An historic tin Cornish mine could help make the UK a leading source of tungsten for the Western World, the firm behind plans to reopen it said today as revealed it contains far bigger deposits of the metal than earlier thought.

Redmoor was already seen as Europe’s highest grade, undeveloped, tungsten resource.

But today international mineral exploration and production company Strategic Minerals said latest surveys had shown what it called a “transformational uplift” in its production capability, giving an estimated base case valuation for the project of $1.54bn (£1.15bn).

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