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The

Wealthiest Miner

Jack grew up in the Village Town of Gwennap, in the

County of Cornwall. His Family was in the tin and copper mining

business during a time of great demand for these metals, ‘The

Industrial Revolution’. Jack was to complete his miners’

apprenticeship the same day he turned 16, the age of majority in

his day, Jack was now considered a Cornish man and in a weeks’

time he would travel alone to Caradon Hills searching for new

sources of tin and copper. He hoped the ancients had missed

good ore and may have left their tools or other artifacts. There

Jack met Tommy and Madeline. That day he would something

more valuable than any of the metals or artifacts he sought,

something that set his life a direction that would curve major

events in history.

Jack carried his good news back to the miners of

Gwennap and under his direction the fellow miners dug in a new

direction of his father’s Poldice Mine #2 and soon reached an

enormous void in the rock where the tin crystals were as big as

horses. That day he was promoted to mine Captain.

Jack soon found many more voids all around the

underworld of Cornwall and for the next 70 years continued mining

with the same successes and was the number one supplier of

metals for the industrial revolution. By his death at the age of 88

he was the wealthiest miner of Cornwall and the wealthiest miner

ever.

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