Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 7pm - lecture (in person) "Mining, on the Dark Side" - Stephen Lay ACSM, BSc, FIMMM, CEng.  Followed by Christmas Social. 

Lecture venue is the Exchange Lecture Theatre, Exchange Building at Penryn Campus, TR10 9FE. The Exchange Lecture Theatre is down one flight of stairs in the Exchange building, number 2 on the map at https://www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions/penrynmap/. The most convenient car park is Car Park C, on the right after the barrier as you drive onto campus. Parking is free throughout the campus from 5pm (i.e. barriers will let you in and out).   

Christmas social venue is in the CSM Museum inside building 5, entrance just near the number 9 on the online campus map. 

Lecture details: One of the last Cousin Jacks, Stephen Lay graduated from CSM as a mining engineer, he then walked across the road at Pool and had 13 years in the Cornish mines. It wasn’t until he went “international” that he realised the value of what he had learned in Cornwall. But nothing prepared him for the “dark side” of the industry. Stephen talks of his international encounters with scams, organised crime, extortion and corruption (and rebels!). He discusses the “must knows” of how corruption works and the extreme pressures brought on him by some unsavoury people. He introduces  some of the bad people he has met, they make Poldark’s Warleggans look like saints!