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AR
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12 years ago

#21

"skippy" wrote:
I have in front of me my copy of The Gold Rocks of Gt Britain and Ireland, by John Calvert - fairly famous book... 1854... He mentions Hochsetters grant from Elizabeth 1st, of the Mines Royal company, and 'gold in Worcestershire' - but nothing specific... Lots of other quite specific locations ARE mentioned though - interesting book... hard to get, quite rare these days, probably expensive I'd say....

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9bxOAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Gold+Rocks+of+Great+Britain+and+Ireland&hl=en&sa=X&ei=05HtUOWjIJSN0wXLz4HIBg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Gold%20Rocks%20of%20Great%20Britain%20and%20Ireland&f=false

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davetidza
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12 years ago

#22

"skippy" wrote:
I have in front of me my copy of The Gold Rocks of Gt Britain and Ireland, by John Calvert - fairly famous book... 1854... He mentions Hochsetters grant from Elizabeth 1st, of the Mines Royal company, and 'gold in Worcestershire' - but nothing specific... Lots of other quite specific locations ARE mentioned though - interesting book... hard to get, quite rare these days, probably expensive I'd say....

It was also reprinted by Dickie Bird as Mining Facsimilies Reprint No. 16 of 1988.

Tim Colman
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12 years ago

#23

Calvert's book The Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Ireland can be downloaded for free from Google Old Books - or at least it could when I did that in 2008. If you can't find it contact me and I'll send you a copy (6.5Mb and 361 pages) Not the same as a proper paper version but a lot cheaper!
Tim

Tim Colman

John Mason
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12 years ago

#24

Tim, thanks for the ref. I'll get hold of a copy via the NMW library.

A Thomas
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5 years ago

#25

Is the area that's worth panning at dolaucothi only that which is close to the gold mine?

Coggy
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5 years ago

#26

The definetive book on gold in the UK by Lee Gary Palmer has Dolaucothi as the only large gold bearing area inS Wales, with minor find in Pembrokeshire, and they are really minor, mostly pyrite !

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Do the other two prefer Lesley Judd ?

A Thomas
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5 years ago

#27

Thank you Coggy, I might just give it a try. Any tips on the area?

Moorebooks
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5 years ago

#28

I have a copy of the book AR referred to at £25 its bot over expensive
Mike
https://www.moorebooks.co.uk/-USED-The-Gold-Rocks-of-Great-Britain-and-Ireland-with-a-General-outline-of-the-Gold-Regions-of-the-World-A-Treatise-on-the-Geology-of-Gold.html

johnwin
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5 years ago

#29

Calvert dismisses South Wales pretty quickly. The only location is Oogafau (sic), meaning Dolaucothi which is mentioned as a Roman Mine. G W Hall also mentions Treffgarne in Pembrokeshire.

neutronix
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5 years ago

#30

Book just uploaded in pdf from archive.org (a wondeful free source of free books and music).

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Minegeo
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5 years ago

#31

The problem with Calvert is that it was a promotional book and many of the locations are patently false with gold occurrences in geologically impossible locations. For "unusual" locations treat with caution!!