Friday 12th June

20.00 - 21.30

Opening General Session - The Forum Room

Ainsley Cocks ( Cornwall Council )
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Heritage Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Bernard Deacon ( Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter )
The Cornish at Home.

Allen Buckley ( The Trevithick Society )
What did Cornish mining ever do for us?
 

Saturday 13th June

09.30 - 11.00

Lecture Room One
(The Lady Edith Suit)

Mining Technology (1)

Robert W. Vernon
Hathorn Davey Ltd of Leeds, Yorkshire: A company history.

Jim Lewis
War and Peace: The Economy of Cornish Copper Mining 1795-1840 and its Implications Regarding the Development of the Steam
Engine

Adam Spring
Using 3D Survey Techniques to Record,
Interpret and Deconstruct the iconic Cornish Engine House.

Lecture Room Two
(The Venetian Room)

Economic and geopolitical movements in mining (1)

Ines Herrera Canales
The Diputaciones Mineras in San Luis Potosí, colonial administrators of local mining activity.
I.Roldán de Montaud
The Cuban Copper Cycle in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1868.

Eric Nystrom
Visual Representations and Engineering Authority in American Mining, 1860-1930.

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Lecture Room One
(The Lady Edith Suit)

Mining Technology (2)

Francis Pierre
The use of gunpowder in 1617 in the mines of
Le Thillot (Vosges-France) - inspiration or imitation in this innovative process.

St Just Mining Research Group – Geoff
Treseder
Stoping Methods in the St Just Mines Before Mechanised Drilling.

Pascal Raggi
Innovation and Labour Process in the
Iron-Mines of the Lorraine region (1945-1975).

Lecture Room Two
(The Venetian Room)

Economic and geopolitical movements in mining (2)

Frigga Kruse
British exploration, mining and diplomacy on Spitsbergen, 1898 – 1952.

James L. Kenny
The Cold War and Mineral; Development: the case of New Brunswick ( Canada ) 1945-1970.

Greg Drew
South Australia's new mining boom – is history being repeated.

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 17.00
(including tea break)

Lecture Room One
(The Lady Edith Suit)

Mining populations and Diasporas

Charles Fahey
Populating the Victorian Goldfields, 1852-1901.

William Culver and Jessica Mack
From Kilmarnock to Concepción: how
Hudson 's Bay Coal Miners Bound for
Vancouver Island Came to Chile.

Ken McQueen
Henry William Nancarrow: Member of the Cornish Diaspora and his role in the Cornish, Scottish and Australian Mine, Cobar, New
South Wales.

Maria João Ramos P. Silva
São Domingos Mine's English and Cornish connections.

Lorry W. Felske
The British contribution to the development of the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Mining District in Western Canada.

Lecture Room Two
(The Venetian Room)

Conflict and Labour Relations

Alan Murray
Dead Men Talking – documentary CD [this is a very good CD of just under one hour and would be an interesting film for those attending].

Peter Alexander
Culture and Conflicts – Witbank Colliery Life 1900-1950.

Barry McGowan
Class, hegemony and localism: the curious case of the Welsh mining communities of Currawang and Frogmore in southern New South Wales (NSW) Australia.

Robert P. Bob Wolensky
The Avondale Mine Disaster. September 6, 1869 Labor, Ethnicity, and Sectionalism in the Anthracite Coal Industry's Most Deadly Tragedy.

17.00 - 18.00

Business meeting

18.00 - 20.30

Visit to King Edward Mine Museum

Sunday 14th June

09.00 - 11.00

Lecture Room One
(The Lady Edith Suit)

Mining Archaeology

T.M. Mighall, S. Timberlakem, A. Caseldine, E. Krupp
Reconstructing the origins and history of
copper and lead mining from central Wales ,
UK , using palaeo-pollution records from a
raised bog.

Marie-Christine Bailly-Maître
The medieval mining district of Hierle, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier (Gard-France).

Donald Adamson
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.

Hilary Orange
Where does Botallack begin and end? Mines, names and boundaries -a contemporary perspective on a mine site in West Cornwall.

Lecture Room Two
(The Venetian Room)

Social, Cultural and Health/Safety Issues (1)

Rafael de Freitas e Souza
The Priest and the manager: religious and administrative conflicts an English auriferous mine: Brazil (1862).

Kenny Macrae
A Galloway Ghost Town: the social dimension of a 19th Century lead-mining community in the uplands of south-west Scotland.

Hanna Diamond
Gender and Ethnicity in French mining: the case of Provence.

Julia Riediger
Women and Religion in the Coalfields – the Ruhr and South Wales in Comparison, 1945-1970.

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - 13.00

Lecture Room One
(The Lady Edith Suit)

Mining Heritage: Interpretation and Management

J.P Meixedo, M.E. Lopes, M.J. Dias Costa, J.F.C. Trigo, and H. Chamine
Conversion of mining heritage into a new life-cycle: an example of the ancient Aveleiras wolfram mine (NW Portugal).

C.N. Edmonds and J.D. Ford
Historical chalk mining in England ; Case study of the Reading area, Berkshire .

Keith Nicholls
Planning and Developments Control in Areas Affected by past mineral extraction – ‘tub
before the pony'?

Lecture Room Two
(The Venetian Room)

Social, Cultural and Health/Safety Issues (2)

Catherine Mills
The Dolcoath Worm: Regulating the Unhealthy Underground Environment 1890-1914.

María Dolores Muñoz Dueñas
Mining interests, Protestantism and British Consular policies in Spain (1875-1948).

Criena Fitzgerald
The day the skip ‘got away': Memories of the skip accident on the Sons of Gwalia Mine, Western Australia 1951.

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 20.00

Visit to Geevor Tin Mine including readings from 'The Wheal of Hope' by author, poet and broadcaster James Crowden.

Monday 15th June

09.00 - 11.00

Lecture Room One
(The Lady Edith Suit)

Mining Capital and Finance

Clara Elena Suárez Arguello
The Silver Rescue Banks in financing the economy of New Spain, 1790-1810.

Mabel Benavidez de Albar Diaz
From one point to the other in the planet: Some British oil and precious metal seekers along an intercontinental route.

Alma Parra and Paolo Riguzzi
British Mining concerns in Mexico 1824-1880.

(Space for one paper)

Lecture Room Two
(The Venetian Room)

Mine exploitation: Successes and Failures

Nic Haygarth
Tasmania's Mount Bischoff tin mine: Dolcoath of the Antipodes?

John Woodland
Experiences of the first gold mining companies in Australia.

Ross Both
The Kanmantoo-Strathalbyn mineral field, South Australia: the ‘ Cornwall of the Colony.'

Robert G. McCandless
Ensuring Canad 's Supplies of Tungsten in the Second World War, or How the King became a Miner.

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

11.30 - Close of Congress

Lecture Room One
(The Lady Edith Suit)

Mining Personalities and Mining Institutions

Jeremy Mouat
‘A disgrace to the nation'? Debating the role of the Royal School of Mines, 1901-1907.

Bernard O'Neil
Johannes Menge (1788-1852): A prominent mineralogist in Europe, Iceland , Russia and South Australia .

Andrzej J. Wójcik
The Achievements of Josef Cieszkowski in Polish mining

Sunoa Murata
Tomoko (miner's Craft Guild) An 18 th Century precursor to the Modern Miner's Labor Union in Japan.