The St. Austell area in Cornwall is famous for its association with china clay where rich deposits of Kaolin have been mined over the centuries. The mines have been so ingrained into the Cornish economy that pretty much everybody in the local area either worked for companies involved in the china clay industry or had...

We are delighted to hear of the positive outlook for reserves of metalliferous bearing mineral veins as discovered during this latest exploration phase by Cornish Metals in and around the area of St Day in west Cornwall. In the early days of Mining Searches UK, in the late 1970s to early 1980s we carried out...

The maps plans and charts that the specialists at Mining Searches UK (MSUK) consider for mining risk assessments vary widely and can include written documents, plans and sections of underground workings and surface plans, even plans jotted down back of a cigarette packet style. As a result, the information shown on the plans is viewed...

Here Dominic Tubb, Head of Product, gives us an interesting insight in to just why you and your clients should be buying a GeoRisk or a GeoRisk + report:        and    Ground stability and Mining and Geo-risk. Living in a temperate climate as we do here in the UK, nothing else out...

Mining and stability covered in every transaction – why take the risk? Groundsure is delighted to announce the launch (on Monday 7th September) of a new suite of ground stability and mining reports:    and    Created with Mining Searches UK (MSUK) – which Groundsure acquired in January this year – GeoRisk was developed following...