Looking down into the ruined Arsenic Calciner Furnace building at Tolvaddon Arsenic Works in the Tolvaddon Valley near Camborne

Date:
1965 - 1971
Location:
Tolvaddon Arsenic Works, Arsenic Calciner, Camborne, Tolvaddon Valley, Cornwall
Reference:
CIP01/71B/16
Type:
Photograph (Print)
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Description

A calciner furnace was used for high-pressure heating of tin ore in order to extract arsenic or sulphur during the process of producing purified tin. Arsenic was a common and valuable by-product of the copper and tin mining industry.

Content

This is part of the Job: CIP01/71B Cornish Industrial Archaeology Photographs 71B; within the Collection: CIP01 Cornish Industrial Archaeology Photographs

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Falconer, Keith

Keywords

Post Medieval Arsenic Calciner, Post Medieval Arsenic Works