King Copper: South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895 by Ronald Rees

King Copper: South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895

Ronald Rees

179 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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For the whole of the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, a belt of coastal smelters--using local coals and ores from Cornwall, Cuba, and Chile--produced virtually all of Britain's copper, and much of the world's. Copper brought consider...

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