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After the Miners Left: Cornwall's Accidental Ecosystems with Eva Marquis
Cornwall’s 4,000-year mining heritage has left more than engine houses behind.
Geologist Eva Marquis, innovation fellow and lecturer at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, works on critical minerals, the circular economy and responsible mining in the landscape she grew up in.
Its abandoned mine workings now host ferns, lichens and microbial mats that glow under UV light.
Those accidental ecosystems raise one of the hardest questions in mine closure: should old mine sites be remediated, or have generations of history given them a value of their own?
For Eva, the answer depends…
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