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

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

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.

But it wasn't always that way.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Today is the glue in the high tech will.

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

All of these things require 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.

Future also lies in its past.

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

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

Mark Wills Family have bean 10 miners for four generations.

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

There was no longer profit in selling it wholesale.

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.

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.

Nina dos Santos, CNN Cornwall in England.