See response below from Giordano Sivini - his
search for information on the Moreing involvement
at Raibl is quite specific. Can anyone help further?
Peter
>Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:21:12 +0200
>To: Peter Claughton <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Giordano Sivini <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [MINING-HISTORY] Raibl Mine, Italy, and Bewick
> Moreing and Co.
>
>Thanks, Peter.
>I know that a lot of documentation is available
>at the Hoover Institution and in many part of
>Australia. But my problem is very circumscribed.
>Charles Algernoon Moreing alone (not Bewick) and
>later Algernoon Henry Moreing provided money for
>the Raibl mine in Northern Itally and were members of the board of directors.
>The Moreings represented in different times the
>shares of the Consolidated Goldfields of South
>Africa, the New Consolidated Goldfields of
>London, the Southern European Metal Corporation
>of London and the London Australian & General Exploration.
>But the real owner of the mine was Bernardino
>Nogara, a mine engineer who became the Pope's banker in 1929.
>My wish is understand the relationships between
>Moreing and Nogara. What is available in the USA
>or in Australia is'nt useful for this purpose. I
>try to find a sort of Moreing Archive in London,
>or something like this. The Moreings were
>members of the Parliament, can be this a track for research?
>Thanks also for the Stafford indications, in any
>case important for the general context.
>Giordano.
>
> At 01.24 01/07/2007 +0100, you wrote:
>>Giordano,
>>
>>See response below, posted on the mining-history list.
>>
>>Peter
>>
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>>>I asked a similar question some years ago and received a helpful reply from
>>>Peter Bell in Australia, where Bewick Moreing had considerable interests.
>>>Some of the best sources, are seemingly within the Herbert Hoover archives.
>>>For example: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. Historical
>>>Materials: Microfilm - Bewick, Moreing and Co.: Selected papers relating to
>>>Herbert Hoover, 1897-1926. Property of Bewick, Moreing & Co. 1 reel.
>>>
>>>There is also some useful material in the standard works on Hoover, e.g.
>>>Volume I of George Nash’s biography "The
>>>Life of Herbert Hoover" (Norton, New
>>>York, 1983). As far as I can tell, there are no significant archives in
>>>Britain. I have written some of
>>>this material up, mainly in the context of the
>>>founder of the company, Thomas John Bewick,
>>>and part of this was published in:
>>>Linsley, S. M., ‘Thomas John Bewick,
>>>1821-1897, Mining Engineer, Part 1’,
>>>North Pennine Heritage, 30 (Spring, 1997) 4-7; ‘Part 2’, North Pennine
>>>Heritage, 31 (Summer, 1997) 3-4.
>>>There will also be an entry for Bewick in a forthcoming dictionary of civil
>>>engineers.
>>>Prof. Giordano Sivini can contact me directly if he wishes.
>>>Stafford
>>>
>>>
>>
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