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The Mines of South Western Scotland by Tony Oldham 2005. 35 pp, 5 surveys cum location maps, 18 colour photos including colour front and rear cover. The mines of south-western Scotland are virtually unknown to most of the inhabitants of England and Wales. In many ways it is a lost and forgotten area. An area of wild beauty, noted more for its agriculture and scenery than for its industries. It has never been of great importance as a centre of mining; nevertheless the scattered occurrences of metalliferous ores that have been worked from time to time are relatively poorly covered in literature. The two main works by G V Wilson (1921) and James R Foster-Smith (1967) are long out of print and difficult to obtain. This present work hopes to overcome this problem by recording those deposits, which are known to exist, and which have been worked or investigated in past times. There is no active mining in the area at present, though some small-scale mining continued as late as 1954. Price £5.00 post free from the address below. Cheers - Tony Oldham Duncavin 1 Riverside Mews CARDIGAN SA43 1DH United Kingdom http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/guides.html http://www.showcaves.com http://www.mike.munro.cwc.net/mining/tony_o/tonyo_hp.htm http://www.stonemanfamily.co.uk/