Smelting Cornish Tin 

Excellent! Interesting hobby indeed.

🤔This is very interesting, but I've got a few questions, if you've got the time to answer them: What's the tin concentration in that finely crushed cassiterite ore powder at the beginning? Did you have to mix carbon/charcoal with the cassiterite in the smelting process to separate the unwanted byproduct minerals from the pure tin? Or was it just a matter of just getting it really hot, past the melting point of tin? What do you personally use the tin for, do you refine it as a hobby, or do you mine it, smelt it and sell it on the open market? I've bought a pound of 99.9% tin from Rotometals about 3 years ago to add to my element collection, and to experiment with casting it. But I'd be FAR more interested in buying a couple/few pounds of tin from someone who personally mined and smelted it from a historical mine. So, if you're selling it, let me know! Thanks 👍

Apart from being an interesting piece of history, does anyone use the tin you produce? Also, who refines the Casserite into the final powdered form that you smelt? Finally, how much Casserite ore is left in Cornwall? If economic conditions were right, is there enough ore left to support a modern mining industry? Please advise.

Cool work! Do you ever sell ingots of Cornish tin, or cassiterite?

Great

Hello, congratulations for the video, it is very interesting and with good content. One question, how long does the melting process last? (From ore to tin)

Please what percentage of purity is the Tin from your first extraction. Secondly, if I wish to purify it, can you tell the process or otherwise demonstrate it, thanks and happy new year

Hello, do you use fluxes (soda, borax, limestone, quartz), or just carbon( charcoal?), and whats the carbon source/ore ratio? Thank you for your reply.

Thanks for the video. I wish to smelt on a very small scale like u. May I have your email? How do u design or buy a small “furnace” that we saw in the video? Thanks so much. This is my new hobby.

I have a metallic compound having 54% tin and 40% lead and 6% other metals ...... Which method should I use to refine tin from it

Would you be willing to demonstrate on film please?