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Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 25 Jan 1999 21:49:49 +0100162_ISO-8859-1 Does somebody knows where to get the book : Pryce, William 1778 Mineralogia Cornubiensis. 1972 Edition, Bradford Barton, Truro ?
Thank you44_25Jan199921:49:[log in to unmask]
6126 50 35_Re: Pryce book... Where to get it [log in to unmask], 26 Jan 1999 12:35:11 +0000 (GMT)482_US-ASCII I have a copy, which I bought in Falmouth. If it is out of print, you might be able to get a copy in a second hand bookshop in Truro, Falmouth, or Penzance. The bookshops I have found best for mining books are:
The Falmouth Bookshop, off the main street, in an arcade. Olivers, Redruth. Also, Dyllansow Truran, which is mail order. You could also phone the Mining Museum at Matlock bath. they have an extensive collection of new and second hand books. [...]52_26Jan199912:35:11+0000(GMT)[log in to unmask]
6177 32 35_Re: Pryce book... Where to get it ?25_robert and fiona [log in to unmask], 26 Jan 1999 09:18:33 +0000595_- In message <[log in to unmask]>, Morin <[log in to unmask]> writes >Does somebody knows where to get the book : >Pryce, William 1778 Mineralogia Cornubiensis. 1972 Edition, Bradford Barton, >Truro ? > >Thank you > > >***************************************************** >Denis MORIN >[log in to unmask] point your browser at http://www.bibliofind.com/
and follow instructions
chances are it might work, there certainly ought to be copies on the British second hand market.49_26Jan199909:18:[log in to unmask]
6210 46 17_research [log in to unmask], 26 Jan 1999 14:19:27 -0700 (MST)621_US-ASCII Greetings! My name is Karla Brophy. I am joining this mining-list as a writer. I have a degree in sociology from the University of Alberta, Canada. I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I am researching for a novel I am writing. The novel is set in Rumelange, Luxembourg in the 1880's. I am looking for information on iron-ore mining in the late nineteenth century. Rumelange is one of many iron-ore mining towns in southern Luxembourg. I have doing quite a bit of research already but haven't found much information written in English. I've written to the mining museum in Rumelange [...]53_26Jan199914:19:27-0700(MST)[log in to unmask]
6257 28 35_Laura vein in a British metal mine?25_robert and fiona [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 1999 10:23:05 +0000558_- Does anyone know of a Laura vein in a British Metal Mine?
The reason for the enquiry is that the poet W H Auden was extremely knowledgable about British inter-war metal mining and frequently refers to it in his writing.
A description of a woman called Laura using mining terminology is given in the poem Age Of Anxiety and although the vast majority of his names (like Dinah's Rake) have had their locations confirmed, my searches using Kingsley Dunham, Raistrick and PDMHS volumes have so far got nowhere on this one. [...]49_27Jan199910:23:[log in to unmask] |
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Min-Hist Biblio
Carmarthenshire Anon. Western Mail 10 November 1999. New drift mine
near the existing Dynant Fach No 2 colliery near Tumble, is planned.
Whitequarries Sale Mine Part 2 by Ivan Young. Grampian Speleological
Group Bulletin Third Series Vol 5 No 2 October 1999 pp 36 - 44, 5
surveys, 4 photos. A further kilometre of passage has been explored.
Descent / The magazine of underground exploration is published by Wild
Places Publishing. email: [log in to unmask] (151) Dec/Jan
1999/2000
Plenty of mining notes: p 10 Alderly Edge Mines access; p 11
Derbyshire’s flourspar mining ends; p 13 Garth Iron Mines; p 15 NAMHO
‘99 wrtite-up; p 16 Mining in the British Isles Part 3 Gold by Chris
Jones. p 17 Fatal Fall (Combe Martin Silver Mine), Mine closures (coal
and Devon Clay Balls Mine); p Brown’s Folly gated (stone mine Bath); p
19 International Mining Congress, Greece
http://heliotopos.net/conf/immhc/index.htm/ ; p 30 Mining papers at the
BCRA confernce Leeds ; p 34 The Dudley Stone Mines (book review).
My Kingdom of Books by Richard Booth with Lucia Stuart 1999 318 pp
illus. Y Lofa Cyf, Talbont. HB DW £14.94
I was always under the impression the Mr Booth’s family made their money
from Booth’s Gin, but I am wrong. His father and grandfather had
military background. I have always regard the business of selling
secondhand books as a licence to print money, so I was surprise to learn
otherwise.
Mr Booth’s empire started in 1962 when bought the Fire Station in
Hay-on-Wye, and filled it full of cheap books. He went on to buy the
Castle and the Cinema in Hay and filled those with books as well.
If you have read this far and you are wondering where the mining
connection comes in, then its page 26 “Perhaps the finest library I ever
saw in a Welsh country-house was at Nanteos [family seat of the local,
fabulously wealthy mine owners] near Aberystwyth, where George Powell, a
homosexual squire had romped with Swinburne. As a monument to the
turn-of-the-century prosperity, a magnificent stuffed bear, brought from
the wastes of Siberia by members of the family, loomed large in the
shadows of the entrance hall. The library dated from the seventeenth
century and the books were in mint condition. There was a pristine
collection of three-volume novels and a first edition of Lady Audley’s
Secret worth a four-figure sum. Removing them from solid oak,
glass-fronted bookcases, I realized that an era was coming to an end”.
He also bought up miners’ libraries in South Wales, cheap books by the
container load in the USA and started similar book towns in France and
Scotland. He still owns a shop in Hay called “The Limited”.
Around Wales - Merthyr Tydfil. Western Mail, 14 Dec 1999 p 6. Work to
clear and preserve Cyfartha Ironworks will start soon.
Contributed by Tony Oldham, Specialist Bookseller for Mines and Caves.
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