*Towards a Better Understanding: New Research on Old
Mines<http://moorebooks.co.uk/shelves/>
*, The proceedings of the Welsh Mines Society Conference 2010
This is a very well presented volume and is of the standard you would
expect from such a group of well known Mining Historians
The publication includes an account of the Esgairmwyn mine including the
post-war reworking of the mine (G.W. Hall); two papers on lead, zinc and
silver production in north-east Wales with quantitative analyses of the
mining activity there (C.J. Williams, R.A. Williams); a discussion of
Dillwyn & Co.’s Swansea silver refining operations (P. Claughton); further
research on seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century mining at Cwmystwyth
(R. Bird); Fenton’s search for coal near Tywyn (D.M.D. James); three papers
on mines and mining-related archaeological work near Pontrhydfendigaid
including a description of probably the first underground hydraulic engine
in Wales (J. Webb, D. Sables and R. Bird); a re-examination of Brynyrafr
mine (S.J.S. Hughes); the detection of methane in mines (R. Vernon); the
‘birth of flotation’ at Glasdir Mill plus a contemporary description of the
later vacuum flotation process (G.W. Hall, R. Vernon); a history of the
Llwyn Teify, Bwlchgwyn, Penrhiw and Ystumtuen mines (G.W. Hall) and a
detailed critique of the IGS mineral reconnaissance map in the northern
Central Wales Orefield (D.M. James).
Welsh Mines and Mining No. 2
ed. D.J. Linton, Welsh Mines Society 2012, PB, 150pp, £10.00 + P&P
Mike
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