Metal Mining in Mid Wales 1822-1921 by George Hall is now available for purchase.
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The late George Hall occupied a unique position in mining scholarship in Britain, not only from his seventy-year career in mine promotion, management and field-based research but from his possession of a near-complete run of the Mining Journal covering the greatest days of the Mid Wales orefield, an area very dear to his heart.
Lying between the expanded gazetteer approach of David Bick and the exhaustive monographic treatments of some individual mine sites by various authors, this publication commemorates George’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the orefield and fills a major gap in its documentation. It draws on his intimate knowledge of the content of the
Mining Journal, otherwise difficult of access, and not only charts the historical development of the mines but also gives a vivid picture of how they were worked, funded and managed and of some of the heroes and villains whose actions variously resulted in spectacular profits and financial scams of the worst kind.
The text comprises George’s work in progress for submission for an M.Phil. degree, edited for continuity and augmented with introductory material and relevant illustrations by David James.
Metal Mining in Mid Wales, 1822–1921, G.W. Hall, ed. D.M.D. James
Welsh Mines and Mining 3, Welsh Mines Society 2014
PB, 130 pp, £12.00 + £1,75 p&p, ISBN 978-0-9561377-2-2
Copies can be ordered from:
Welsh Mines Society
c/o D J Linton
Hendre Coed Uchaf
Llanaber, Barmouth
LL42 1AJ
Payment by cheque made out to Welsh Mines Society.
Enquiries to Dave Linton, 01341 280901
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