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neutronix said:
I stirred up a hornets nest on AN over this topic after the Carbis Bay Crew had put up a video on YouTube with an exploration of South Terras. As a classified radiation worker my entire working life, I thought I was being helpful pointing out the hazards...others thought not.

For those who may be interested in exploring South Terras, the following article might be of interest:

https://www.wpb-radon.com/Radon_research_papers/2001 Daytona Beach, FL/2001_07_Two Abandoned Metalliferous Mines in Devon and Cornwall, UK -- Radon Hazards and Geology.pdf

It might make you change your mind :) .
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You will know of the level at King's Wood near Buckfastleigh with a good deposit of pitchblende therein {?}. My eldest lad went to find it last year but fortunately was defeated by the undergrowth, thank goodness !!!
 
Dickie Bird said:
You will know of the level at King's Wood near Buckfastleigh with a good deposit of pitchblende therein {?}. My eldest lad went to find it last year but fortunately was defeated by the undergrowth, thank goodness !!!
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That is the other locality written about in Gillmore et al's paper. I would guess Wheals Edward and Trenwith would also figure quite highly as places to avoid due to high levels of radon.
 
AR. said:
Good to have you here Dickie, another great thing you did was the photographing of the 25" Barmaster's maps and subsequently making those images available - with the originals now missing, those images are invaluable!
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In regards to your comment about the Barmasters maps, Jim R asked me to copy them, which I did on the firm's Barcro camera system (on rails!) and I made prints from the results. He then asked me to send the original whole plate negs to Trevor Ford. Bugger that for a game of skittles I thought, so I made duplicates - not as good - and kept the originals!! So, should anyone require the best possible result they can always email me and I will put them on to the file transfer system (Smash) and send them the link to download same. But, hey! not too many please !! :rolleyes:
 
Welcome - just saw your picture of Halkyn Deep Level from 1989 - the entrance didn't look much different when I was last there in about 2019, 30 years later !
 
Dickie Bird said:
In regards to your comment about the Barmasters maps, Jim R asked me to copy them, which I did on the firm's Barcro camera system (on rails!) and I made prints from the results. He then asked me to send the original whole plate negs to Trevor Ford. Bugger that for a game of skittles I thought, so I made duplicates - not as good - and kept the originals!! So, should anyone require the best possible result they can always email me and I will put them on to the file transfer system (Smash) and send them the link to download same. But, hey! not too many please !! :rolleyes:
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The quality really shows when compared to some of the prints of other Barmasters map photos I found in Nellie Kirkham's collection and scanned at high resolution - they're blurred and hard to read in places, whereas on yours faint pencilled notes can be read when you zoom in!
 
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