Description
First Published in 1990. This collection of essays is intended shed light upon key issues in the history of mining and metallurgy: issues such as investment and organisation; professionalisation; the impact of technological change; and the problematic relationship between mineral wealth and sustained economic development.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Issues in the History of Mining and Metallurgy, Charles Harvey, Jon Press; Chapter 2 Serendipity or Economics? Tin and the Theory of Mineral Discovery and Development, 1800–1920, Derek Matthews; Chapter 3 Mineral Production, Organisation and Technological Change: The Coeur D'alene District of Idaho, 1890–1933, Roger Burt; Chapter 4 ‘Copperopolis’: The Rise and Fall of the Copper Industry in the Swansea District, 1826–1921, Edmund Newell; Chapter 5 The City and International Mining, 1870–1914, Charles Harvey, Jon Press; Chapter 6 Southern African Mining Interests in Australia Before 1939, Simon Katzenellenbogen; Chapter 7 Strategic Responses to Foreign Competition: The British Coal Industry and the 1930 Coal Mines Act, Trevor Boyns; Chapter 8 Metal Mining and Canadian Economic Development to 1939, Alexander C. Dow;
