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Prospecting For Tin - A Boring Team
This photograph shows a boring team in the mid-20th century.
Around 1898, prospecting for tin by boring had suddenly become very popular among Chinese miners due to the proven (by the government) superiority of scientific methods.
Normally, a prospecting team would venture into a potential tin mine area with a boring set to identify the composition of tin in the land, before opening the mine, thereby reducing the risk of mine owners venturing into unprofitable land. The boring by a hollow pipe and boring set produced a cylinder of the earth from ground level to the maximum depth of the bore and enabled on-site assessment of the percentage of tin in the soil and at what depth from the surface it laid.
To see the sequence of events involved in prospecting for tin, click here.
To read more about the book Kinta Valley, click here.