Cornish MP, Sarah Newton's comments
From Sarah Newton's blog Tuesday 3rd May 2011;
I was pleased to join the Open Day of King Edward Mine on Sunday. This mine was until relatively recently the training mine for the Camborne School of Mines that is now part of the University of Exeter and Combined Universities of Cornwall. It is run by a team of dedicated volunteers who have maintained some of the rarest working mining machinery in the world. It was a real treat.
I am very much hoping that as the new Local Enterprise Partnership finds its feet, it will look at what more can be done to promote our UNESCO World Heritage Sites and our mining heritage. The world class mining engineers that Cornwall has produced are not a thing of the past, they are very much part of our future. Today, mining engineers come from all over the world to Cornwall to develop new mining techniques.
I was delighted to learn that the King Edward Mine will be the location of the 34th International Mining Games. The Games will be hosted by the students of Camborne School of Mines and will take place between 29th March and 1st April 2012.
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