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By Rebecca Morelle
Bumping around in the back of a truck, we descend underground.
Just the headlights guide our way into the gloomy tunnels ahead.
We’re heading into South Crofty mine in Cornwall, where copper and tin have been excavated for hundreds of years. This tunnel, we believe, is Elizabethan, so it dates back to the 1500s,” says Richard Williams, CEO of Cornish Metals, as we enter one of the oldest parts of the site.
But access is limited. Much of the mine flooded after South Crofty shut in 1998.
image captionCornish Metals wants to open up South Crofty again
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Some 25 per cent of the UK’s needs could be met from British supplies, according to BMI. But it is unlikely to ever be economically competitive with China’s state-sponsored supply chains, which the West has allowed to become dominant in recent decades.
“National security always comes at a slight cost,” said Alexander Stafford MP, the co-chair of the APPG on critical metals.
Cornish Lithium also promises to be more significantly more environmentally friendly than other mining methods, which have been linked to water and soil contamination, since it relies on existing pits and geothermal waters.
This could prove valuable as manufacturers look to clean up their supply chains, with talks already under way on creating a UK ‘trust mark’ for clean metals.