Bookings will open for the Conference first thing on 1st March 2014. The online booking system is at http://www.namho.org/bangor2014/conf_booking.php
The list of speakers and lectures is:
Louise Barker The Welsh Slate Industry: archaeological evidence for development and change
Tim Colman Metalliferous mineral exploration in North Wales since 1964
Darran Cowd Mechanisation on the Coal Face: a history
Andrew Davidson Precipitation Pools on Mynydd Parys
Steve Grudgings From Calley to Curr: the refinement of the Newcomen Engine between 1712 and 1790
David Gwyn Copper and Slate: technological and social change in the extractive industries of north-west Wales
Graham Isherwood Hunters Machines
Mia McCabe Splitting the Mine: the effect of Buddles panel method on the increase in extraction rates in 19th-century coal mining
Catherine Mills Technological Innovation and Adaption: Tyndrum Lead Mine and the German Managers, 1838 to 1865
Tim Oulton Electricity in the North Wales Slate Industry
David Jenkins Mine Drainage on Mynydd Parys
Robert Protheroe Jones Dating the Introduction of Gunpowder in the Central Wales Orefield
Rick Stewart Deep mining technology: Devon and Cornwall in the eighteenth century
Ian Thomas Welsh Stone Quarries
Simon Timberlake Prehistoric mining technology: archaeology and experimental reconstruction
Rob Vernon Boreholes: a brief history of an essential mineral exploration technique
Full details of the conference including the timetable for lectures, details of the surface and underground field trips and the online booking system are available at http://www.namho.org/bangor2014.
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