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There is a complete run of the List of MInes in the State Papers collection of the British Library. They were published as Parliamentary Papers in the the late 19th century but appeared as other government publications in the 20th century. The post 1st World war series are most interesting since they give an indication of the mines in production after the cessation of the publication of detailed by-mine production figures. Roger On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:23:41 +0000 ramseykm <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > To be perfectly honest, I've never looked for the List of Mines in the BL > catalogue - I've always assumed that it must be there because everything > published in the UK is (or should be). I've just had a look at the online > catalogue and I can't find it either, so I assume that you need to look in one > of the sections of the catalogue that requires a password. > > The biggest single collection of the List of Mines that I've seen is in the > library at the London School of Economics (http://www.blpes.lse.ac.uk/), > although they only have 1915,1917-21,1923-45,1948 and 1950. It's a great pity > that it isn't more easily available as it may well be the only source of > information available for many mines (if anyone hasn't seen it, it was published > annually and for each mine gave details of owner, manager, number of workers, > minerals and seams worked, etc). I think we had a discussion about this on the > list some time ago and no one was able to say where a complete run might be > found. > > Keith Ramsey ---------------------- Prof.Roger Burt Department of History School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies Amory Building University of Exeter Devon %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%