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International Competition and Industrial Change
Essays in the History of Mining and Metallurgy 1800-1950
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International Competition and Industrial Change
Essays in the History of Mining and Metallurgy 1800-1950
About this book
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.
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INDEX
agencies (overseas) 1, 99, 112
Agnew, J.A. 127, 128–9, 130
Aguascalientes Metal Co. 116
Alaska 67,103
Albion Colliery 139–40
Albion Steam Coal Co. Ltd. 136
Algeria 10
aluminium 7, 103
Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) 7, 11
American Metal Co. 116
American Mining & Smelting Co. (ASARCO) 116, 126
American Smelters' Securities Co. 116
Amery, L.S. 129
Anaconda Mining Co. 7, 90
Anglo-American Corporation 8, 121, 124–6, 130
Angola 121
Aramayo family (Bolivia) 40
Argentina 158
Aron Hirsch 116
Arsenic 86
Austral Development Ltd. 124
Austral Metals Ltd. 124
Austral Trust Ltd. 124, 128, 130
AustraUa 4, 8, 19, 25, 36–8, 51, 83, 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 113,121–30,158
Australian Metal Co. 116
Ayrshire 137
Bairds & Dalmellington Ltd. 137
Banka (Dutch East Indies) 26, 28, 30, 35
Bankatinwinning (monopoly company) 30
Bamato, Barney 111
Barnato Brothers 110
bauxite 7
Beatty, Chester 125
Beer Sondheimer 116
Beit, Alfred 110, 111
Bendigo (Victoria) 127
Bendigo Mines Ltd. 128, 129, 130
Bennett, R.B. 146
Bessemer process 91, 92
Bewick, Moreing & Co. 3, 6,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Issues in the History of Mining and Metallurgy
- Serendipity or Economics? Tin and the Theory of Mineral Discovery and Development, 1800–1920
- Mineral Production, Organisation and Technological Change: The Coeur D'alene District of Idaho, 1890–1933
- ‘Copperopolis’: The Rise and Fall of the Copper Industry in the Swansea District, 1826–1921
- The City and International Mining, 1870–1914
- Southern African Mining Interests in Australia before 1939
- Strategic Responses to Foreign Competition: The British Coal Industry and the 1930 Coal Mines Act
- Metal Mining and Canadian Economic Development to 1939
- Index