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The Spalling Floors  |
Behind
and slightly higher then the large shed is
an area of exposed cobbling. The view below shows this area looking Northwards
up the valley.At a lower then the floor lies the foundations
of the dressing shed which shows signs of recent damage by off road vehicles.
The yard lies to the right and West
Caradon's tips the left with a stack of Gonamena
mine visible of the horizon.
A Comparison
with the photograph on the left would indicate that part of this floor
was partly protected by a low roof. A raised tramway or launder
appears to run behind the floors and small remains of its wooden supports
still exists within the bank.
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Summer 2001 A spalling floor is a level cobbled area on which the lumps of rocks were manually broken.The area was sometimes covered by a light wooden building.The ore would have been ragged before spalling and sent for cobbing afterwards. |
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| Spalling
was the breaking up of large chunks of rocks into manageable lumps, usually
by Bal Maidens
using spalling hammers.
Spalling was one of several manual processes in Copper ore dressing. Other processes that would have been carried out would have been: The picture on the right looks across the cobbled floor towards the location of the low roofed structure and the revetmented bank that lay behind it. |
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| Although
the site appears to be freely accessible to the public it is on private
land and no formal right of ways exist.
Like all mine sites dangers exist, many hidden. This web site is aimed as a resource to those using the public right of way and cannnot encourage visitors to the mine workings itself. |