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Sketches of a Cornish Tin Mine (Note picture of bal maidens centre left.) The Illustrated News of the World, 1893
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Four stages in dressing copper ore. Showing from L to R Spalling, Cobbing, Bucking? and Sieving? Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall, by Cyrus Redding 1842
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Women spalling (left), cobbing (centre), picking (right) and bucking (back right) Engraving of Dolcoath Mine by Thomas Allom circa 1831
TindSml Tin Dresser of the St Just Area (with some artistic licence!) Illustration from Half Hours Underground (Daldry, Isbister & Co, 1878) Page 151
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Woodcut of bal maiden with Cornish shovel Peeps into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, 1879
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Woodcut of three bal maidens Peeps into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, 1879
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Bal maidens spalling, and loading ore wagon at Carn Brea 1880 Harpers Magazine, 1881
The following images are taken from a paper by James Henderson, published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1858, and are available with a transcript. (See Links, Books & Articles)
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Women spalling ore
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Girls cobbing copper ore
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Girls barrowing, bucking and griddling copper ore
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Girls at the picking table
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Bal maiden at semi automated jigging machine
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Bal maiden at the racking frames (tin)
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Bal maiden at the calciner hopper

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