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> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:11:40 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Tin mining Port Talbot
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Roger
> My great grandfather didn't go near a pelt......
>
> I suppose it's possible that as a metal worker he was exposed to
> mercury.....
>
> 5 minutes ago someone suggested it may have been arsenic was the
> contributory factor....
>
> Thanks
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Roger Hutchins
> Sent: 07 March 2010 11:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Tin mining Port Talbot
>
>
> Hi,The Hatters went Mad due to Mercury poisoning, Mercury was used to
> cure the pelts. I dont think tin was involved in any way. Roger.
>
> > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:46:16 +0000
> > From: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Tin mining Port Talbot
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Geoff -
> >
> > I am under the impression that Tin was used in the hat manufacturing
> > industry - hence "mad as a hatter"...... Thousands of people who
> worked
> > in smelting activity would spend their twenties and early thirties at
> > work, their mid thirties and forties in sanitoria, before suffering an
> > early death.........I had always associated this with work with
> > tin.....perhaps I'm wrong in that....and someone will tell me it was
> > zinc, or nickel, or copper....I remain open to argument!
> >
> > I've just checked up on the White Rock works - and it seems that they
> > smelted copper and silver there! Smelts of lead and zinc were also
> > present locally, and brass was manufactured (Upper Bank), that would
> > probably have used ingot tin.....
> >
> > Tinplating went on in and around Pontardawe, Briton Ferry ,Ammanford
> and
> > Llanelli, before settling down at Velindre and Trostre near Llanelli.
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> > Geoff Treseder
> > Sent: 07 March 2010 10:20 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Tin mining Port Talbot
> >
> > Keith I'm not aware of 'tin madness' (other than the financial fiasco
> in
> > the
> > mid 1980s), are you sure this was smelting of primary tin concentrates
>
> > rather than residues arising from other metallurgical processes.
> > Geoff Treseder
> > Carn Metals
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Keith Nicholls" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: Tin mining Port Talbot
> >
> >
> > Geoff.....
> > Tin was certainly smelted in Swansea - using Cornish tin - my great
> > grandfather died as a result of "tin madness" he picked up while
> > working in the White Rock smelter at Kilvey.
> > Keith Nicholls
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> > Geoff Treseder
> > Sent: 07 March 2010 09:17 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Tin mining Port Talbot
> >
> > Tin ingot was imported from Cornwall not concentrate for smelting.
> > Geoff Treseder
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Keith Nicholls" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 8:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: Tin mining Port Talbot
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > At risk of being proven wrong.....as a born and bred native of Swansea
> > and a geologist - it is my opinion that no mining of any tin ever
> > occurred in or around Port Talbot( wrong rocks!). A short distance
> east
> > there is some gold and lead / zinc mineralization (in the
> Carboniferous
> > Limestone, but I'm not aware of it ever having been commercially
> > exploited).
> >
> > Port Talbot is sited on the coast, on the Lower Coal Measures. Mining
> in
> > the vicinity is limited to coal and associated minerals (black band
> > ironstone etc).
> >
> > Tin was imported to the Swansea area from Cornwall for smelting, and
> > it's possible that some form of smelting operation may have been tried
> > at Post Talbot (later home of course to a large steel works).
> >
> > Tin plating may have been attempted also - although subsequently this
> > was carried out near Llanelli (Trostre).
> >
> > Keith Nicholls
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of
> > Dave Linton
> > Sent: 06 March 2010 04:16 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Tin mining Port Talbot
> >
> > I'm passing on a query that has been made to me. The only tin-related
> > connection I can think of is the south Wales tin-plating industry. Can
> > anyone help with this?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > > I apologise for bothering you with what I consider to be a minor
> query
> > but during some research I have been carrying out on Cornish mine
> > quarrys it was suggested to me that there once existed tin mines in
> the
> > Port Talbot /general Neath area of S Wales.I personally can find no
> > evidence of the existance of such Industrial mining sites & believe it
> > to be a myth I dont suppose your organisation has any evidence to the
> > contrary .
> > > Grateful for any light you could shed on the matter.
> > --
> > Dave Linton
> > 01341 280901
> >
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