{"id":7459,"date":"2022-10-20T17:42:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/the-part-of-cornwall-nobody-ever-sees-the-hi-tech-future-for-lithium-and-tin-mining\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:42:45","slug":"the-part-of-cornwall-nobody-ever-sees-the-hi-tech-future-for-lithium-and-tin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/the-part-of-cornwall-nobody-ever-sees-the-hi-tech-future-for-lithium-and-tin-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The part of Cornwall nobody ever sees\u2019: the hi-tech future for lithium and tin mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second part of our Electric Dreams series looking at the UK\u2019s automotive battery industry, we visit an area whose industrial past is being revitalised<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/sep\/29\/britishvolt-38bn-battery-factory-green-industry\">Shock therapy: turmoil engulfs Britishvolt\u2019s \u00a33.8bn battery factory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A foggy, overgrown quarry in a quiet part of Cornwall is a good place to contemplate Britain\u2019s industrial past. It is here that miners used steam power, explosives and their own hands to dig out china clay for ceramics. The industry helped to fuel the Industrial Revolution and briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/sep\/17\/significant-lithium-find-spurs-hopes-of-cornwall-regeneration\">made Redruth one of the richest places in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The quarry is also a pretty good place to contemplate Britain\u2019s industrial future. Cornish Lithium, a UK startup, is one of a clutch of businesses hoping to revive British mining amid a global scramble for the battery minerals that are crucial for the transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/oct\/20\/the-part-of-cornwall-nobody-ever-sees-the-hi-tech-future-for-lithium-and-tin-mining\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/30a6b84b13327c8f3f5a769fb03f160b2b1efe0d\/0_390_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e65dbed3ec675b725d2bcaedc8e302b7\" title=\"\u2018The part of Cornwall nobody ever sees\u2019: the hi-tech future for lithium and tin mining\" \/>In the second part of our Electric Dreams series looking at the UK\u2019s automotive battery industry, we visit an area whose industrial past is being revitalised<br \/>\nShock therapy: turmoil engulfs Britishvolt\u2019s \u00a33.8bn battery factory<\/p>\n<p>A foggy, overgrown quarry in a quiet part of Cornwall is a good place to contemplate Britain\u2019s industrial past. It is here that miners used steam power, explosives and their own hands to dig out china clay for ceramics. The industry helped to fuel the Industrial Revolution and briefly made Redruth one of the richest places in the UK.<br \/>\nThe quarry is also a pretty good place to contemplate Britain\u2019s industrial future. Cornish Lithium, a UK startup, is one of a clutch of businesses hoping to revive British mining amid a global scramble for the battery minerals that are crucial for the transition away from fossil fuels. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second part of our Electric Dreams series looking at the UK\u2019s automotive battery industry, we visit an area whose industrial past is being revitalised Shock therapy: turmoil engulfs Britishvolt\u2019s \u00a33.8bn battery factory A foggy, overgrown quarry in a quiet part of Cornwall is a good place to contemplate Britain\u2019s industrial past. It is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/the-part-of-cornwall-nobody-ever-sees-the-hi-tech-future-for-lithium-and-tin-mining\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018The part of Cornwall nobody ever sees\u2019: the hi-tech future for lithium and tin mining<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}