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The Cornish China Clay Branches are a number of railway branch lines that serve facilities that produce or process China Clay.The area of Cornwall north of St Austell stretching from Bodmin Moor towards Truro is known for the extraction and processing of commercial volumes of China Clay, and with the expansion of the railways in the 19th century a number of lines were constructed to access ...
As the china clay industry grew in the area during the 19th century this became the main export through the docks. [3] According to the Imerys Blueprint For Cornwall published in 2003: 1858 – 15,154 tons of china clay went out through Par 1885 – 86,325 tons 1987 – 700,000 tons 2002 – 313,425 tons + 134,810 tons of aggregates
English China Clays was incorporated in April 1919 through the amalgamation of three of the largest producers: Martin Bros.(established in 1837), West of England China Clay & Stone (1849) and the North Cornwall China Clay Company (1908). [1] The three companies accounted for around half the industry's output at the time. [2]
The Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum is a museum of china clay mining, at Carthew, on the B3274 road about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of St Austell in Cornwall, England. A Victorian clay works has been preserved, and there is an exhibition building.
Satellite image of east Cornwall and west Devon marked to show the three locations of china clay extraction Loading china clay (kaolinite) at Carne Point, Fowey The Blackpool Dryers and Mills for processing china clay near Burngullow. During the 20th century, various ores were briefly profitable, and mines were reopened, but today none remain.
The 0.6-hectare (1.5-acre) SSSI, notified in 2000, comprises three separate sites that are all about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the town of St Austell. [1] [2] They all lie within china clay workings which are still active and are situated on either pits, spoil tips or vegetation-covered granitic debris. [3]
The bare slopes of the old china clay works are where western rustwort (Marsupella profunda) occurs. [3] By 2004 the liverwort was known from fourteen sites within three SSSIs, making Cornwall the main stronghold globally. [6] The nationally scarce moss (Brachydontium trichodes) known from only two sites in Cornwall also occurs on Tregonning ...
As railways developed in Cornwall a number of direct access points connected the deposits, but the area close to St Austell was not among them, notwithstanding a proposal to extend the Pentewan Railway there in the 1880s. The china clay industry was subjected to heavy swings in its trade cycle, and a slump in 1903-4 was followed by an upsurge.