RECORDS - South West England

  • Eleven plans of engine houses around St Agnes and Porthleven.
  • Notes relating to mining in the North Devon and Somerset parishes of: Barnstaple, Bere Alston, Berrynarbor, Bideford, Bratton Fleming, Combmartin, Dulverton, East Buckland, Exford, Georgeham, Luccombe, Molland, North Molton, Paracombe,South Molton, Withypool.
  • Extracts from Close, Liberate and Patent Rolls for mining in Cornwall and Devon 1258-1550. Notes on Holmbush, Redmoor and Kell Bray Mines from the Mining Journal.
  • Photographs of the Camborne and St Just area, c1962. South Crofty Ltd - Directors' Report, 1959.
  • Amax Exploration Report on the Hemerdon Project (1981).
  • Anon. "Geevor Mine - part I" Mine & Quarry Engineering, (July 1955). Anon. "Geevor Mine - part II" Mine & Quarry Engineering.
  • Anon. "Tin Mining at Wheal Jane" Mining Magazine, Vol.130 No.2 (February 1974), 7 pp. Anon. South Crofty Ltd. An undated report on the company and its mine.
  • British Parliamentary Papers Accidents in Mines, pp.11-21. The evidence of John Taylor - taken on June 17th 1835.
  • British Parliamentary Papers Annual Returns for rents etc from Duchy of Cornwall Mines 1849-1919.
  • British Parliamentary Papers Report from the Committee Appointed to enquire into the state of the Copper Mines and Copper Trade of this Kingdom, May 1799.
  • Burt, R. "History of Cornish Mining" undated draft, 17 pp.
  • Burt, R. "Records and Sources for the Financial History of South West Mining" draft copy (1991) 11 pp + graph.
  • Claughton, P.F. A List of Mines in North Devon and West Somerset.
  • De La Beche, H.T. Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset (London: 1839), pp.522-642 (Economic Geology).
  • Gill, M.C. Mineralogia Cornubiensis: An Index - unpublished.
  • Gough, J.W. Mendip Mining Laws and Forest Bounds (Somerset Record Society, Vol.45, 1931).
  • Hillman, J. "The Social Consequences of the International Tin Cartel" paper read to Bochum Conference,, (1989).
  • Moissenet, L.V. "Excursion dans le Cornwall en 1857. Preparation mecanique du minerai d'etain" Annales Des Mines, Ser.5 tome XIV (1859), pp.77-276.
  • Moissenet, L.V. "De l'extraction dans les mines de Cornwall. Puits inclimes et coudes"
  • Annales Des Mines, Ser. 6 tome II (1862), pp.155-272.
  • Rule, J.G. "Some Social Aspects of the Cornish Industrial Revolution" typescript - pp.71- 106.
  • Salmon. H.C. "Lead Smelting on the Mendips" Mining and Smelting Magazine, Part 6 (December 1864), pp.312-328.
  • Stanton, W.I. & Clarke, A.G. "Cornish Miners at Charterhouse-on-Mendip" Proceedings of the University of Bristol Speleological Society, Vol.17 No.1 (1984), pp.29-54.
  • Tylecote, R.F. "Roman Lead Working in Britain" The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol.II Pt 1 No.5 (June 1964), pp.25-43.
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