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8th International Mining History Congress
Provisional abstracts
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of the paper to view abstract. Abstracts for the Seminar for Early
Career Researchers in Mining History will follow shortly.
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The
Research, Developments and History of Mine Fire - Detection,
Prevention and Control
Niroj Kumar Mohalik, Central Institute of Mining and Fuel
Research, Dhanbad Jharkhand - 826015
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Populating the
Victorian Goldfields, 1852-1901
Charles Fahey, La Trobe University, Australia
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Hathorn Davey Ltd of Leeds, Yorkshire; A company history
Robert W. Vernon
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Tasmania's Mount
Bischoff tin mine: Dolcoath of the Antipodes?
Nic Haygarth
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Culture and
Conflicts - Witbank Colliery Life 1900-1950
Peter Alexander, Centre for Sociological Research, University
of Johannesburg
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The Toll
from Toil: Miners' Phthisis in Bendigo, (Australia) 1880s – 1910
Yolande Collins, La Trobe University, Australia
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Planning and
Development Control in Areas affected by Past Mineral Extraction -
"tub before the pony"?
Keith Nicholls
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The Priest and the Manager: religious and administrative conflicts an
English auriferous mine: Brazil (1862)
Rafael de Freitas e Souza, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
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War and Peace: the
Economy of Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1840 and its Implications
Regarding the Development of the Steam Engine
Jim Lewis
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Reconstructing the origins and history of copper and lead mining from
central Wales, UK, using palaeo-pollution records from a raised bog
Authors: T.M. Mighall, University of Aberdeen; S. Timberlake,
University of Cambridge; A. Caseldine, University of Wales, Lampeter;
E. Krupp, University of Aberdeen
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Dead Men Talking
Alan Murray, University of Queensland, Australia
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From Kilmarnock
to Concepción: How Hudson's Bay Coal Miners Bound for Vancouver Island
Came to Chile
William Culver, SUNY, Plattsburgh
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Experiences of
the first gold mining companies in Australia
John Woodland, La Trobe University, Australia
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A sixteenth
century coal mine under the sea: a new interpretation of the
archaeology of the Moat Pit, and a consideration of its wider
importance
Donald Adamson, Glasgow University
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Using 3D Survey
Techniques to Record, Interpret and Deconstruct the iconic Cornish
Engine House
Adam Spring, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter
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“
A disgrace to the nation”? Debating the role of the Royal
School of Mines, 1901-1907
Jeremy Mouat, University of Alberta
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The Cuban Copper Cycle
in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1868
I. Roldán de Montaud, Madrid
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Class, Hegemony
and Localism: the curious case of the Welsh mining communities of
Currawang and Frogmore in southern New South Wales (NSW) Australia
Barry McGowan, Canberra
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Conversion of mining
heritage into a new life-cycle: an example of the ancient Aveleiras
wolfram mine (NW Portugal)
J.P. Meixedo, (LABCARGA), Instituto Superior de Engenharia do
Porto ; M.E. Lopes, Universidade do Porto; M.J. Dias Costa, Regional
de Cultura do Norte; J.F.C. Trigo, (LABCARGA), Instituto Superior de
Engenharia do Porto; & H.I. Chaminé, (LABCARGA), Instituto Superior de
Engenharia do Porto and Universidade de Aveiro
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Henry William
Nancarrow: Member of the Cornish Diaspora and his role in the Cornish,
Scottish and Australian Mine, Cobar, New South Wales
Ken McQueen, University of Canberra
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Johannes Menge
(1788-1852): a prominent mineralogist in Europe, Iceland , Russia and
South Australia
Bernard O'Neil, Visiting Research Fellow, School of History
and Politics, University of Adelaide , and Johannes Menge, Blaubeuren,
Germany
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A Galloway Ghost
Town: the social dimension of a 19th Century lead-mining community in
south-west Scotland
Kenny Macrae, Herlufsholm Skole, Danmark
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Stoping Methods
in the St Just Mines Before Mechanised Drilling
Authors: St Just Mines Research Group - Geoff Treseder
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Gender and
Ethnicity in French Mining: the case of Provence
Hanna Diamond, University of Bath
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The
Kanmantoo-Strathalbyn mineral field, South Australia : the ‘ Cornwall
of the Colony'
Ross A. Both
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South Australia 's
New Mining Boom – is history being repeated?
Greg Drew, Mineral Resource Group, Primary Industries and
Resources South Australia
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From one point to the
other in the planet: Some British oil and precious metal seekers along
an intercontinental route
Mabel Benavídez de Albar Díaz
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Historical Chalk Mining in England; case study of the Reading area,
Berkshire
C N Edmonds & J D Ford, Peter Brett Associates LLP
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Tomoko (Miner's
Craft Guild): An 18th Century Precursor to the Modern Miner's Labor
Union in Japan
Sunao Murata
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São Domingos Mine's
English and Cornish Connections
Maria João Ramos P. Silva
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The
Cold War and Mineral Development: The Case of New Brunswick ( Canada
), 1945-70
James L. Kenny, Royal Military College of Canada
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The Silver Rescue Banks
in the financing the economy of New Spain, 1790 - 1810
Clara Elena Suárez Argüello, C.I. E.S.A.S., México
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The British contribution
to the development of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Mining District in
Western Canada
Lorry W. Felske
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The
Avondale Mine Disaster, September 6, 1869 Labor, Ethnicity, and
Sectionalism in the Anthracite Coal Industry's Most Deadly Tragedy
Robert P. Bob Wolensky, University of Wisconsin , Stevens
Point and King's College, Wilkes-Barre , PA
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‘The day the
skip ‘got away': Memories of the skip accident on the Sons of Gwalia
Mine , Western Australia 1951
Criena Fitzgerald
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Where does
Botallack begin and end? Mines, names and boundaries -a contemporary
perspective on a mine site in West Cornwall
Hilary Orange UCL Institute of Archaeology
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Coal Mining
Landscapes - underground
Ivor J Brown
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British Capital
Investment in North Queensland – Technical and Social Impacts in the
1880s in the Silver Industry
Ruth S. Kerr
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How the King Became a Miner
Robert G. McCandless P.Geo
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The use of
gunpowder in 1617 in the mines of Le Thillot (Vosges-France) -
inspiration or imitation in this innovative process
Francis Pierre, Société d'Etudes et de Sauvegarde des
Anciennes Mines, Epinal and Université de Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
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The medieval
mining district of Hierle, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier (Gard-France)
Marie-Christine Bailly-Maître, CNRS Research Director,
Université de Provence
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