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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