Canadian mining company Strongbow's investment in the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall - an internationally famous tin mine in the south-west of England, with a long heritage - is for the long term, reports Hassan Butt.
South Crofty is expected to deliver about 5,000 tonnes per year of tin when it becomes fully operationalSTRONGBOWThe South Crofty tin mine was once a centerpiece of the economy in the southwestern English county of Cornwall, producing more than 450,000 tonnes of tin in a near-200-year operating span.But after the tin market crash of 1985, the mine's domestic and international prominence began to ebb. In 1998, South Crofty closed.Now, just over two decades later, the Cornish mining landscape is set to reawaken from a long period of dormancy, albeit against a host of prospective challenges.Yet with South Crofty emerging as a forerunner in its resurgence, the question of whether the project - and Cornish mining on the whole - can prosper in an entirely different economic climate, remains a key aspect of its development.South Crofty sits between the civil parishes of Camborne and Redruth in Pool, a small village in...