Cornish History In The Making
Category: News
Published: 24th September 2024
A previous blog item entitled “The Last Cornish Tin Smelter” back in March included plans to smelt the last South Crofty tin concentrate from ore mined in 1998...
About us
Wheal Jane Laboratory provides an integral service for many companies in the mining industry, both locally and worldwide.
Analytical Services
We offer a wide range of instrumentation techniques, including sulphur/carbon analysis, x-ray fluorescence, inductive coupled plasma, spectrophotometry and atomic absorption.
Welcome to Wheal Jane Laboratory
Purpose-built facilities
Originally a mining laboratory serving Wheal Jane Mine, the old premises were replaced by a purpose-built facility in 2006. Business growth quickly led to further expansion, and an extension to house new equipment was completed in 2011, followed by further extensions in 2015. Since then, we have continued to build upon and update our facilities to keep up with new innovations.
Our facilities include: a wet lab with hotplate units housed in dedicated fume cabinets; state-of-the-art instruments; a sample preparation unit; furnaces; a tin smelting facility; storage areas; and offices. Our capabilities cover a multitude of sample types, from rock chips, soils, sands, water samples and chemical solutions, and we can perform non-destructive testing where required.
Trusted around the World
We may have originated as a Cornish mining laboratory, but at Wheal Jane we receive work from across the globe. With a number of clients still coming to us from Cornwall, and many more from England, Scotland and Wales, we also see samples from Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Romania, Russia, Nigeria, Malta, Mexico, Serbia, Morocco, Tanzania, the Caribbean, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Greenland, the USA, Canada and Australia.
Our clientele is just as varied. Over the years we have received work from across industries specialising in battery and technology recycling, environmental remediation, water treatment, manufacture of medical products, and biotechnology. We also receive work from law firms, universities and curious members of the public, as well as our bread-and-butter clients in the mining industry who send us work from all stages of mining development, from initial prospecting through to tradeable final concentrates.
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Latest News
Tin Ingot Study
Category: News
Published: 8th August 2024
As a laboratory that has a particularly close relationship with tin mining, smelting and analysis, it is possibly no surprise that we have recently been asked to undertake a study into the purity of tin ingots destined for scrap.
The Last Cornish Tin Smelter?
Category: News
Published: 19th March 2024
Wheal Jane laboratory has, in recent years, been heavily associated with lithium analysis and exploration both locally and internationally, and continues to expand into other new sectors of the analytical market.
