Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 27 Jan 1999 17:03:36 -0500631_us-ascii Dear karla' had to chuckle about your e-mail. Hope you get replies that will be helpful. It must be frustrating to sit in Alberta and want to write about German-speaking or French-speaking miners in Luxembourg in the 1880s. Hewre are a few tips: read Charles Dickens and D. H. Lawrence, and other Britishers. They wrote about workers and miners and social conditions during the Industrial Revolution in Britain; that revolution came later on the Continent but much of what had happened in Britain was repeated on the Continent. You would certainly get much of the flavor and could use that [...]45_27Jan199917:03:[log in to unmask]
6683 45 36_Re: Silver Mining on Sark 1834 (fwd)15_Peter [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 1999 23:21:06 GMT302_us-ascii In partial answer to the query forwarded from P.J.Rivett.
The nearest silver price I have to hand is that for 1838 at 4s.11 1/2d. per oz - silver had been steady at about 5s. / oz since 1820. (Tooke and Newmarch, A History of Prices .. 1792 to 1856, 1928 edn., vol. 2, p.5.) [...]46_27Jan199923:21:[log in to unmask]
6729 90 11_Mines in [log in to unmask], 28 Jan 1999 13:51:31 EST464_US-ASCII NOTE FROM: M.P.Munro E-Mail [log in to unmask] Rotating Equipment Engineer, Barry. Tel +44(0)1446 723908 Pump Global Tech Team Chair. Fax +44(0)1446 701266 SUBJECT: Mines in UK Hi Bob, Blackcraig mine (as East & West) is detailed in 'The Non-Ferrous Metal Mines of South-West Scotland' J.R.Foster-Smith, pp.8-10, 1967, ISS No.2 of the Northern Cavern & Mine Research Society. It also contains a section of the mine. [...]43_28Jan199913:51:[log in to unmask]
6820 72 36_Re: Silver Mining on Sark 1834 (fwd)13_Dave [log in to unmask], 27 Jan 1999 21:04:48 +0000826_- In message <4221.199901271420@cronus>, [log in to unmask] writes >Can anyone help with this query sent to me today? >The sender is [log in to unmask] > > >Forwarded message: >> From [log in to unmask] Tue Jan 26 21:34:48 1999 >> From: [log in to unmask] >> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:34:04 EST >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Mime-Version: 1.0 >> Subject: Silver Mining on Sark 1834 >> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >> X-Mailer: AOL 3.0.i for Windows 95 sub 170 >> >> Can you assist me in a book I am writing on Sark please ? >> I am trying to get details of mining operations [...]45_27Jan199921:04:[log in to unmask]
6893 31 19_Treading carefully?15_Philip [log in to unmask], 28 Jan 1999 19:45:31 -0000396_iso-8859-1 Just before I go and commit serious crimes, can anyone advise me of the rules governing copyright, particularly in relation to old books, magazines etc.
I understood it that anything over 75 years was deemed 'in the public domain'.
Also, if a publication has no copyright message, does this mean it can be copied?
Many thanks
Phil Clifford [...]49_28Jan199919:45:[log in to unmask]
6925 25 36_Re: Silver Mining on Sark 1834 (fwd)13_Dave [log in to unmask], 28 Jan 1999 19:10:05 +0000383_- In message <199901272321.XAA03593@hermes>, Peter Claughton <[log in to unmask]> writes >Probably the best person to contact re mining on Sark is Nick Laffoley, 27 >Barley Close, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8SB. > > Unfortunately Nick Laffoley collapsed and died some 12-18 months ago whilst working at Ashanti Goldfields in Africa.45_28Jan199919:10:[log in to unmask]
6951 20 24_Mines in UK (Blackcraig)25_robertOk |