Essays in Cornish Mining HistoryD.Bradford Barton
* Examples of Cornish Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age structures are Chûn Quoit, Boscawen-Un and Chysauster Ancient Village. 2000BC *Mining in Cornwall has existed from the early Bronze Age around 2150BC and it is thought that Cornwall was visited by metal traders from the eastern Med...
Cornish tin mining continued profitably until the 20th century, when the shallow tin deposits were exhausted and the deeper and more costly workings fell victim to cheaper foreign tin production. The number of working mines dwindled, and, with the world collapse of tin prices in the 1980s, the...
摘要: the cornish miner in america: the contribution to the mining history of the united states by emigrant cornish miners--the men called cousin jacks by arthur cecil toddAn abstract for this item is not available.DOI: 10.2307/1841452
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