Mining in World History.

This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper. It was this invention which brought back to life the rich copper-silver mines of c...

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Main Author: Lynch, Martin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
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