Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The following article originally appeared in the Times Trade Supplement of August 28 last. It is here reprinted with some small additions by the courtesy of the proprietors of that Journal.
page 32 note 1 Glacial Geology of Northumberland, p. 102.Google Scholar
page 32 note 2 Geology of Northumberland and Durham, p. 15, and “Certain Surface Features of the Glacial Deposits of the Tyne Valley”: Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland, etc., vol. xi, pt. iii, 1893.Google Scholar
page 32 note 3 Metric tons throughout.Google Scholar
page 33 note 1 The figures for 1803 to 1883 have been estimated from the world's decennial production given in Messrs. Nicol Brown & Turnbull's A Century of Copper. Subsequent figures up to the year 1908 are from the Chief Inspector of Mines' Report, part iv. The figure for the year 1913 is from Merton's Tables, and that for 1918 from the Engineering and Mining Journal.Google Scholar
page 35 note 1 The present copper production of the United Kingdom is derived mainly from “precipitate” got by treating water from the old Parys and Mona mines in Anglesey.Google Scholar
page 36 note 1 Merton.Google Scholar
page 36 note 2 Mineral Industry.Google Scholar
page 36 note 3 Home Office.Google Scholar
page 36 note 4 By Nicol Brown & Turnbull in A Century of Copper.Google Scholar
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