News & Insights
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Fierce Competition at School Mining Games
Carrak Consulting had a great day out this month, helping at the School Mining Games held at King Edward Mine Museum. The School Mining Games is an annual event where Year 8 primary school children from across the county take part in mining related activities...
Another Year Supporting Cornish Lithium’s ESG Team
Carrak Consulting is delighted to be working with the ESG Team at Cornish Lithium Plc for another year. Carrak Consulting first worked with Cornish Lithium in 2018 on a research project using remote sensing to identify environmental constraints to lithium exploration....
Cornish Hedging in Penwith
Carrak Consulting is proud to be a sponsor of Cornwall Rural & Educational Skills Trust (CREST) this year. CREST is a charity with a mission “to preserve rural crafts, countryside skills and land-based education to support the heritage of our Cornish landscape and...
Camborne School of Mines – Industry Associate
The Managing Director of Carrak Consulting, Kathy Hicks, is delighted to have become an Associate of Camborne School of Mines (CSM) in recognition of on-going links with the interdisciplinary mining and geoscience department of the University of Exeter. Carrak...
Geochemistry of Mine Water in Cornwall
Carrak Consulting has secured an Innovation Voucher from Deep Digital Cornwall (DDC) to look at the geochemical properties of water in flooded mine shafts across the region. Mine water geothermal development has not occurred in Cornwall because further research is...
Tin Coast Geothermal
Carrak Consulting will be part of a team, led by GeoScience Ltd, to complete a high-level feasibility study on using geothermal heat from abandoned mines in Cornwall to heat homes and buildings. Cornwall Council, the National Trust, LiveWest and Pendeen Community...
The Cornish Chamber of Mines & Minerals – A New Direction
Kathy Hicks, Managing Director of Carrak Consulting Ltd, is honoured to have been elected Chair of the Cornish Chamber of Mines & Minerals this month. The Chamber was founded in 1917, with a Council of Mine Captains from operational mines across the county. A key...
Working with Cornwall Mining Consultants
Carrak Consulting is pleased to be working with Cornwall Mining Consultants to identify strategic abandoned mine shafts in the county. Cornwall Mining Consultants hold a vast archive of historical mining maps and plans and have considerable experience in accurately...
Remote Mine Shaft Surveying
Carrak Consulting Ltd is pleased to be working with EGS Energy Ltd on a project to assess the condition of abandoned mine shafts in Cornwall. The project is funded by Deep Digital Cornwall and will trial novel techniques to survey open shafts remotely, avoiding health...
South West Mining Subsidence Forum
The South West Mining Subsidence Forum (SWMSF) has a new website hosted by Frederick Sherrell Ltd. The launch of the website coincided with a Geological Society online training session given by Forum member, Simon Ruddlesden (Ruddlesden Geothechnical) on ground...
Carrak Consulting Contributes to ESG at Cornish Lithium
Kathy Hicks, Managing Director of Carrak Consulting, is delighted to join Cornish Lithium’s team as an Advisory Environmental Consultant on their hard rock lithium project at Trelavour, near St Austell. Cornish Lithium is an innovative mineral exploration and...
Carrak Consulting joins the Southwest Geothermal Alliance
Carrak Consulting is delighted to join other Cornish companies in the Southwest Geothermal Alliance, which has been established to help catalyse the development of shallow geothermal projects in the region. Involvement by Carrak Consulting will focus on the assessment...