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The very high quality Italian journal Speleolgia (No 51 Dec 2004) contains an article on the caves and mines of Dossena, Lombardy. Unfortunately I do not read Italian! It does refer to the English Crown Spelter Co there, if anyone is interested. The latter company was involved in a number of North Wales mines which were however not very succesful. Can anyone let me know if the ECSCo were related to the Crown Copper Co. ? Alfred Jenkin of Redruth acted as their agent around the 1820's, when they were jointly purchasing copper ores at the Cornish Copper Co with Williams Grenfell & Co (later Pascoe Grenfell & Co). His letters refer to occasional purchases of "black jack"for the Crown Company. Alasdair Neill.