Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0860785130
ISBN-13
9780860785132
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 29th, 1997
Print length
420 Pages
Weight
940 grams
Ksh 54,900.00
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An anthology of short writings on mining in the parts of the world that fell under European influence from the mid-15th to the early-19th centuries. This is mainly Latin America, where the principle metals were gold and silver.
This volume focuses on Latin America, since it was mainly there that Europeans (or their colonial descendants) actually engaged in mining in the 16th-19th centuries; elsewhere they traded metals mined by others. The principal metals produced, and in prodigious quantities, were silver, in the Spanish colonies, and gold, mainly in Brazil in the 18th century. These articles analyse the volume and pattern of production and the forms of labour found in mining. Particular attention is given to the technologies of extraction and refining, notably the adoption of the mercury amalgamation process: this had a major impact, driving down silver production costs; because the mercury mines were a royal monopoly, it also handed control to the Spanish crown.
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