Dear Rick &Listers
I would like to mention that in the Australia's Little Cornwall, by Oswald
Pryor, on page 72:-
The Machine Shops:
'The iron foundry was a large building with stone walls twenty feet high.
There were three cupolas, one capable of smelting three and a half tons, and
the others two and a half tons each, the blast being supplied by a
thirty-inch Lloyd's fan. When necessary, castings of up to ten tons in
weight could be made. Annual output of castings of 450 tons was made.'
{I once spent time digging out the giant steam hammer base in the workshops,
it was under about three feet of slag from the forging-RBB}.
The above time period was the 1870's or so.
Take Care
Roger B Bradford ex Hon' Project Officer at Moonta National Trust.
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From: "Rick Stewart, Morwellham Quay Mine Manager"
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Subject: Mine Foundrys
Devon Great Consols established a "casting foundry" on the mine in the early
1850s. Writing in the Mining Journal in 1860 H.C. Salmon noted that this
was unique amongst British metal mines - is this the case?
Rick Stewart
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