Gallery 28 - Mevagissey to Par
Cornish Alps
A telephoto shot of one of the China Clay spoil tips - North of St Austell.
A 300ft China Clay spoil heap , known as the Great Treverbyn Sky Tip.
The waste in the tips is mainly sand with micaceous residue , rock and overburden.
China Clay - Kaolinite was formed from the hydrothermal alteration and weathering
of Feldspars in the Cornish Granite.
After the 1969 Aberfan disaster most of the sky tips were levelled.
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Date: 18/07/2016
Location: SX 0323 4976