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Title: Waterwheel on Red River, near Camborne, Cornwall [Go to resource]
Description: The Red River was at one time home to many tin-streaming works. This waterwheel is all that is left of these. The wheel rotated a drum in which pebbles were mixed with tin-bearing sediments in order to break up the larger particles and extract the cassiterite, or tin oxide. Subjects: Machinery
Waterwheel
Water Wheel
IndustrySource: English Heritage - Viewfinder Creator: Williams, P Identifier: http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.u... Language: en Go to resource More Like this...
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