Brunton Calciner
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Brunton Calciner
Image: © Alan Walker Taken: 15 Jul 2007
(The landscape to the immediate east of the Brunton Calciner on the Wheal Busy site) Image : Previous -- (6 of 6) -- Next : Image This damaged heathland can be viewed from Image William Brunton patented his ‘Brunton Calciner’ in 1829 and greatly enhanced the speed at which arsenic (an impurity) could be removed from ore. Where the arsenic contamination was high it became economic to recover the arsenic as a by-product. For an explanation of the Brunton Calciner visit this page from Chycor Cornwall: http://www.chycor.co.uk/tourism/tolgus/page5.htm For more information view this PDF (4.28mb) from Cornwall County Council, http://212.104.147.54/media/pdf/0/0/CCC_1.pdf
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Image Location
Latitude
50.257589
Longitude
-5.172274