Tin from the sea

Tin from the sea: how seabed tin forms and how it has been worked

Tin does not stop at the cliff edge. Rivers and the sea carried ore and mine waste out onto the seabed. Whether anyone may dig it up again is a licensing question, and the guide here answers it first.

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Offshore Tin in Cornwall: Is Anyone Dredging the Seabed, and What Would It Do?

Is tin being dredged off Cornwall? What seabed tin is, whether a licence application is open, what dredging does and how the public can comment.

Image credits

A wide view of St Ives Bay from Godrevy Point on the north Cornwall coast — Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons