8th International Mining History Congress

Provisional abstracts

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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
   
• Populating the Victorian Goldfields, 1852-1901
  Charles Fahey, La Trobe University, Australia
   
• Hathorn Davey Ltd of Leeds, Yorkshire; A company history
  Robert W. Vernon
   
• Tasmania's Mount Bischoff tin mine: Dolcoath of the Antipodes?
  Nic Haygarth
   
• Culture and Conflicts - Witbank Colliery Life 1900-1950
  Peter Alexander, Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg
   
• The Toll from Toil: Miners' Phthisis in Bendigo, (Australia) 1880s – 1910
  Yolande Collins, La Trobe University, Australia
   
• Planning and Development Control in Areas affected by Past Mineral Extraction - "tub before the pony"?
  Keith Nicholls
   
• 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
   
• War and Peace: the Economy of Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1840 and its Implications Regarding the Development of the Steam Engine
  Jim Lewis
   
• 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
   
• Dead Men Talking
  Alan Murray, University of Queensland, Australia
   
• From Kilmarnock to Concepción: How Hudson's Bay Coal Miners Bound for Vancouver Island Came to Chile
  William Culver, SUNY, Plattsburgh
   
• Experiences of the first gold mining companies in Australia
  John Woodland, La Trobe University, Australia
   
• 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
   
• Using 3D Survey Techniques to Record, Interpret and Deconstruct the iconic Cornish Engine House
  Adam Spring, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter
   
• “ A disgrace to the nation”? Debating the role of the Royal School of Mines, 1901-1907
  Jeremy Mouat, University of Alberta
   
• The Cuban Copper Cycle in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1868
  I. Roldán de Montaud, Madrid
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• 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
   
• A Galloway Ghost Town: the social dimension of a 19th Century lead-mining community in south-west Scotland
  Kenny Macrae, Herlufsholm Skole, Danmark
   
• Stoping Methods in the St Just Mines Before Mechanised Drilling
  Authors: St Just Mines Research Group - Geoff Treseder
   
• Gender and Ethnicity in French Mining: the case of Provence
  Hanna Diamond, University of Bath
   
• The Kanmantoo-Strathalbyn mineral field, South Australia : the ‘ Cornwall of the Colony'
  Ross A. Both
   
• South Australia 's New Mining Boom – is history being repeated?
  Greg Drew, Mineral Resource Group, Primary Industries and Resources South Australia
   
• 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
   
• Historical Chalk Mining in England; case study of the Reading area, Berkshire
  C N Edmonds & J D Ford, Peter Brett Associates LLP
   
• Tomoko (Miner's Craft Guild): An 18th Century Precursor to the Modern Miner's Labor Union in Japan
  Sunao Murata
   
• São Domingos Mine's English and Cornish Connections
  Maria João Ramos P. Silva
   
• The Cold War and Mineral Development: The Case of New Brunswick ( Canada ), 1945-70
  James L. Kenny, Royal Military College of Canada
   
• 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
   
• The British contribution to the development of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Mining District in Western Canada
  Lorry W. Felske
   
• 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
   
• ‘The day the skip ‘got away': Memories of the skip accident on the Sons of Gwalia Mine , Western Australia 1951
  Criena Fitzgerald
   
• 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
   
• Coal Mining Landscapes - underground
  Ivor J Brown
   
• British Capital Investment in North Queensland – Technical and Social Impacts in the 1880s in the Silver Industry
  Ruth S. Kerr
   
• How the King Became a Miner
  Robert G. McCandless P.Geo
   
• 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
   
• 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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