The element has been used for thousands of years to make bronze.

幾千年來，這種元素一直被用來製作青銅器。

It was probably used to make the window you daydream out of.

它可能是用來做你做白日夢的窗口的。

And when people think the Academy for the Oscars, they just one statuettes they're holding are mostly made of tin today, much of the world's tin mining takes place in Asia and South America.

而當人們想到奧斯卡的奧斯卡時，他們只是一個雕像，他們手中的雕像大多是由錫製成的，如今，世界上大部分的錫礦開採都發生在亞洲和南美洲。

But it wasn't always that way.

但並不總是這樣。

A county in southwestern England used to be king when it came to tin, and a walk among the ruins of Cornwall's tin mines could take you back in time or back to the future.

英格蘭西南部的一個縣曾經是錫礦之王，在康沃爾錫礦的廢墟中漫步，可以讓你回到過去或回到未來。

Corn Austin Coast Richard Minerals on Ruined Minds on Industrial legacy, which could soon be reborn.

玉米奧斯汀海岸理查德-礦物質對工業遺產的毀壞，這可能很快就會重生。

Thanks to big tech, 10 has been extracted from the rock and this otherwise rural part of the UK for millennia.

由於大科技的發展，10已經從岩石中提取了千年，英國這個原本是農村的地方。

In the late 18 seventies, when thes engine houses were originally built, coral was the world biggest pretty issue of tin, home to 2000 mines dotted across its countryside.

在19世紀70年代末，當機房最初建成時，珊瑚是世界上最大的錫的漂亮問題，有2000個礦井點綴在它的鄉村。

The last of those, South Crafty, closed its doors two decades ago after tin prices plunged and developing economies cornered the market, but now it could be the first to reopen, creating 275 jobs.

其中最後一家，即South Crafty，在錫價暴跌和發展中經濟體壟斷市場後，於20年前關閉了大門，但現在它可能成為第一家重新開業的企業，創造275個就業機會。

And that journey towards Cornell's mining revival begins here around 300 m below the surface.

而康奈爾的礦業復興之旅，就是從這裡開始的，大約在地表下300米處。

Getting the mine up and running in two years won't be easy.

兩年內把礦井建成並投入使用並不容易。

Hundreds of miles of tunnels need to be surveyed on drained, but with demand for smart devices on the rise south crossed ease.

數百英里的隧道需要勘察上排水，但隨著對智能設備需求的上升南交易。

New Canadian owners think that they can make Cornish tin profitable once more tin has been aptly described.

加拿大新業主認為，他們可以使康尼錫盈利，一旦更多的錫已被貼切地描述。

Today is the glue in the high tech will.

如今是高科技意志中的膠料。

Renewable energy, electric vehicles, power generation, power storage, five g.

可再生能源、電動汽車、發電、儲電、五種克。

All of these things require 10.

這些東西都需要10。

On what better way to avoid the concept that your source in tin from potentially areas of conflict or areas where you have child exploitation on two minute Here in Cornwall, South Crafty could become one of the only tin mines in Europe and North America, giving technology companies on opportunity to clean up supply chains, Polish tins.

在什麼更好的方式來避免的概念，你的來源在錫從潛在的衝突地區或地區，你有兒童剝削上兩分鐘這裡在康沃爾，南狡猾可能會成為唯一的錫礦在歐洲和北美，給技術公司在機會清理供應鏈，波蘭錫。

Future also lies in its past.

未來也在於它的過去。

The region was once the wild west of England, as seen here in the BBC drama Poldark, attracting prospectus from all over the country.

正如BBC電視劇《波爾達克》（Poldark）中看到的那樣，該地區曾經是英格蘭西部的荒野，吸引了全國各地的招股書。

They've left their mark on the landscape to the delight of the 4.5 million visitors who flocked to Cornel each year.

它們在景觀上留下了自己的印記，讓每年湧向康奈爾的450萬遊客欣喜不已。

Mark Wills Family have bean 10 miners for four generations.

馬克-威爾斯家族四代都是豆十礦工。

My father was the last one of us that you work underground.

我父親是我們中最後一個你在地下工作的人。

There was no longer profit in selling it wholesale.

批發銷售已經沒有利潤了。

So we grant you renovated some old machinery on site, started producing the tin ourselves, whether people were just interested in that the architecture, the buildings or the physical process that the mineral has to go through to get to it, it seems to capture different people.

所以我們同意你在現場翻新了一些舊的機器，開始自己生產錫，無論人們只是對建築、建築物或礦物必須經過的物理過程感興趣，它似乎能抓住不同的人。

Even if mining doesn't return to Cornel on its previous scale, this ancient metal is already helping this western province of the British Isles to shine again.

即使採礦業沒有恢復到科內爾以前的規模，這種古老的金屬已經在幫助這個英倫三島的西部省份重新煥發光彩。

Nina dos Santos, CNN Cornwall in England.

尼娜-多斯桑托斯，CNN康沃爾在英國。