Mining News – Early February 2026
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The CEO of the firm planning to reopen Cornwall’s last working tin mine today said on-going ‘de-risking’ work put it on schedule to start production in mid-2028.
Cornish Metals wants to unlock the potential of the historic South Crofty site, which closed in 1998, with an ambitious plan to restore it to a working condition and create an estimated 300-plus jobs.
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Strategic Minerals, the firm hoping to reopen an historic Cornish mine, has said recent sample drilling reinforces its opinion that the site can become the highest-grade, undeveloped tungsten resource in Europe.
Last year the company said it would carry out further tests after discovering traces of minerals, including copper, at Redmoor during the first exploration at the abandoned mine since 2019.
It has now revealed that these tests confirmed what it called “high-grade tungsten-dominant and tin-dominant mineralisation with associated copper” within a previously untested part of the site.
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