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>Perhaps to broaden the issue would be to consider water power throughout >metalworking, eg when etc was waterpower adopted to drive bellows in iron >smelting or smithing, tin smelting etc, > Gerry, Yes, applications across metallurgy are certainly relevant to its application in mining - very often driven by the similar incentives to replace scarce manpower. Parallels are there in mining and smelting within the same sector of metallurgy. My ideas are directed towards a NAMHO conference and it would be useful to include an element of ore/metal processing - remind mining historians that the product 'as mined' is not necessarily useful until processed. Peter ______________________________________________ Peter Claughton, Blaenpant Morfil, Rosebush, Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA66 7RE. Tel. 01437 532578; Fax. 01437 532921; Mobile 07831 427599 University of Exeter - Department of History School of Historical, Political and Sociological Studies E-mail: [log in to unmask] Co-owner - mining-history e-mail discussion list. See http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/mining-history/ for details. Mining History Pages - http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~pfclaugh/mhinf/ _____________________________________________ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%