On Fri, December 7, 2007 10:31 am, Alasdair Neill wrote:
> separate dressing of a tributers' ore was
> certainly not the case in tin mining, where payment was based on a sample
> taken of the tributer's stuff before dressing, removing the necessity to
> dress the ore seperately.
This is something which doesn't come out in general histories of mining in
Cornwall. At what date was it first introduced and is that date perhaps
tied in with the introduction of bulk processing techniques like the
'Cornish rolls'?
Peter
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