Real del Monte : : A British Silver Mining Venture in Mexico / / Robert W. Randall.

To speak of mining in newly independent Mexico is to speak of silver. And silver, historically abundant in the Real del Monte–Pachuca district, was the object of the Company of Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte. Organized in response to a plea by Pedro Romero de Terreros for help in rehabil...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1972
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • MAPS
  • TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • A NOTE ON SPANISH WORDS AND ON WEIGHTS, MEASURES, AND CURRENCY
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Formation in London
  • 3. Establishment in Mexico
  • 4. Management and Finance
  • 5. Mining Operations
  • 6. Milling Operations
  • 7. Labor
  • 8. Supplies
  • 9. Real del Monte and Mexico
  • 10. Dissolution
  • APPENDIX A Contract between the Third Count of Regla and the British Real del Monte Company for the Working of the Regla Mines in Mexico, 1 July 1824
  • APPENDIX B Regulations Drawn up by the British Real del Monte Company for the Underground Working of Its Mines, with Respect to the Partido and the Obligations of the Miners, 1 September 1827
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX