Peter No commitment here either, but have you considered Camborne School of Mines as a venue. As well as conference facilities, fieldtrips could be arranged to: - Blue Hills Tin Streaming Works - Kennal Vale Explosive Works - SWW Hydro operations at Mary Tavy, Morwellham and Chagford - Imerys (ex ECCI) china clay water monitors It's only a thought. Regards John PS Are you interested in a paper on Roman hushing operations at Las Medulas, Castilla Leon, Spain? At 16:03 20/03/00 GMT, you wrote: >> are you offering to >>organise this conference? > >Mike, > >No committment. I'm just exploring possibilities - trying to put substance >to ideas generated on the drive home last night. It's a theme I've >considered off and on for a year or three. Responses so far today are >encouraging. I shall put you down to present a paper ;-) > >Peter > >______________________________________________ > >Peter Claughton, Blaenpant Morfil, Rosebush, Clynderwen, >Pembrokeshire, Wales SA66 7RE. >Tel. 01437 532578; Fax. 01437 532921; Mobile 07831 427599 > >University of Exeter - Department of History >School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies >E-mail: [log in to unmask] > >Co-owner - mining-history e-mail discussion list. >See http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/mining-history/ for details. > >Mining History Pages - http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~pfclaugh/mhinf/ > >_____________________________________________ > > > John M Eyre Camborne School of Mines University of Exeter Trevenson Pool Redruth Cornwall TR15 3SE UK Tel: (44) (0) 1209 - 714866 Fax: (44) (0) 1209 - 716977 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%