Six basic steps we take from rock to metal.

We start with tin stone and keep going until we have some beautiful Cornish Tin for us to make into our range of jewellery and giftware.

Step 1.
Rock is first crushed under iron shod stamps to a fine sand, releasing the grains of tin ore.

Step 2. Waste sand is washed away from the heavier tin ore on the shaking table to give a black tin concentrate ready for the smelting process.

Step 3.
Tin concentrates are mixed with necessary ingredients and smelted under intense heat in the furnace until the white tin metal begins to flow from the rock.

Step 4.
The metal is refined using some traditional methods until it’s ready to be cast into heavy ingots of pure Cornish tin for us to use.

Step 5.
Once an idea has been carved in wax we make a mould and pour in the molten tin. When cooled the mould can be opened to reveal the casting.

Step 6.
The metal castings are then filed, sanded and polished to produce our range of Cornish tin gifts which are attractively boxed along with a certificate of authenticity.