"...IS probably cloud except for the Lee Moor pits", I should have said.
Doh!!!
2009/1/7 James Fussell <[log in to unmask]>
> Chalk, Roger??? Also, I think the white on Dartmoor is probably cloud...
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> 2009/1/7 Rick Stewart, Morwellham Quay Mine Manager <
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> Whilst the hazing on the eastern margin on the photo is probably cloud the
>> white patch on the southwestern side of Dartmoor is the Lee Moor group of
>> China Clay works.
>>
>> Rick Stewart
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Roger Gosling" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: Cornish Mining from Space
>>
>>
>> > The white part near the centre of the picture is the chalk pits north of
>> St
>> > Austell, which include the Wheal Martin chalk mining musseum tourist
>> centre
>> > and the Eden Project.
>> >
>> > The larger white parts in bottom right must be Dartmoor, so is probably
>> > snow?? Can't imagine why else it would be such a large area of white.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Roger
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Keith Ramsey" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 9:59 AM
>> > Subject: [MINING-HISTORY] Cornish Mining from Space
>> >
>> >
>> > I've just found this NASA photograph of Cornwall which is captioned
>> > "PENZANCE, STRIP MINING". I suspect that many of you will have a much
>> better
>> > idea of what it shows than I do.
>> >
>> > http://tinyurl.com/8n6l8e
>> >
>> > Keith Ramsey
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>> >
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