Harriman House, Fachbücher, The History of Mining (Englisch, Michael Coulson, 2012)

Life portraits, illustrations and tables About the author Acknowledgements Foreword by Mark Bristow, Chief Executive, Randgold Resources Preface Introduction The Ancient World (from the beginning to 1066) 1. The Stone Age - In the beginning - Tools and weapons - Mining 2. The Bronze Age 3. The Iron Age 4. China 5. Early mining in India 6. Mining in ancient Egypt - The stone quarries - Metals in the desert 7. The eastern Mediterranean and the Near/Middle East - Jordan - Greece - Asia Minor - Persia, the Empire and Iran 8. The Roman Republic and Empire 9. Great Britain 10. Central/Eastern Europe - The eastern Alps - Germany - The Balkans - Other mining regions 11. North America 12. South America - Chile - Peru 13. Africa 14. The Structure of Ownership and Operation 15. Conclusions The Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution (1066-1800) 1. Introduction 2. Mining in Central Europe 3. Scandinavia 4. France - The Paris Basin 5. Great Britain 6. Spain 7. The Lure of Africa 8. The Opening up of North America 9. Gold and Silver and the Spanish Conquistadors 10. Chile 11. The East - China 12. Diamond mines in India and Brazil The Industrial Revolution (1800-1900) 1. Introduction 2. Diamonds in South Africa 3. The Gold Rushes of the 19th century - California - Other American Gold Rushes - and silver too - The Witwatersrand - Western Australia - The Klondike 4. Russia's Gold 5. Mining in Europe - Spain 6. The Emergence of Canada 7. Latin America - Mexico - Brazil - The Cornish Influence - Peru - Chile 8. Copper and much else besides in the USA 9. Mining in the East - Japan as a mining nation - Malayan tin - Tin in Thailand and Indonesia - Borneo diamonds 10. King Coal - Coal in the UK - French coal mining - Belgium - Germany - The rest of Europe - The United States - South Africa - Asia and the Far East - Australia and New Zealand The Modern Age (from 1900) 1. Broken Hill and other Australian giants - Mount Isa - Olympic Dam - Lesser lights 2. Canadian century - The early decades of gold - More than gold - After the Second War - The Crazy 90s - Lac de Gras to BreX 3. The development of mining technology 4. Diamonds - South West Africa - Namaqualand opens up - Offshore diamonds - Diamonds in the Second War and after - The Age of De Beers - Botswana - The Coming of the Canadians - The Diamond Revolution 5. Copper in Central Africa - The development of Northern Rhodesia's copperbelt - Zambia nationalises the copper mines 6. Other nationalisations in the 1960s and before - Bolivia - Chile - Peru - Cuba 7. The Australian nickel boom 8. The Mining Promoters 9. Gold comes to the fore again - Gold and inflation - South Africa and China - Rise of the open pit - The Australian Revival - New Zealand - Gold rushes today 10. Platinum 11. Iron Ore - Australia - Brazil - Iron ore in the East - The growing African industry - Europe's coal and steel community 12. Chile: King of Copper 13. The rise of Uranium - The beginning - Canada and Australia - The rise of Kazakhstan - World Production Figures - The future of uranium - Environmental heat 14. Coal in the Western Economies - The US - Great Britain - South Africa - India 15. China - The foreign influence - Coal - Mining today 16. The Soviet Union - The rise of the Gulags - Norilsk - The search for indigenous diamonds 17. The Mighty USA - Aluminium - Gold - Iron Ore - Copper 18. European mining 19. London rises from the ashes 20. The Environment 21. Mining and Labour 22. Mining and the Media - The Mining Press - The Internet - Mining Literature and Film The Future for Mining 1. What lies ahead? 2. Nationalism and nationalisation 3. Environmental issues 4. New technology, new opportunities Appendices Historical Mining and Minerals Timeline Bibliography Index.