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A technical history of the Rio Tinto mines: some notes on exploitation from pre-Phoenician times to the 1950s

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  1. Leonard Unthank Salkield
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  1. Maurice J. Cahalan
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 1-4

  3. The pre-Roman period

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 5-8

  4. The Roman period

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 9-17

  5. From rediscovery in the sixteenth century until the eighteenth century

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 18-23

  6. The mines under Government control

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 24-26

  7. Private control, 1829–49, the Marquis de Remisa

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 27-31

  8. The mines returned to Government control, 1849–73

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 32-38

  9. Early mining operations of The Rio Tinto Company Limited

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 39-42

  10. Early metallurgical operations of RTC

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 43-44

  11. Infrastructure for the RTC operations

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 45-50

  12. Mining at San Dionisio and North Lode

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 51-58

  13. Ore classification and preparation for shipment

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 59-60

  14. Hydrometallurgical development

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 61-67

  15. Pyrometallurgical development

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 68-78

  16. Sulphur production — the Orkla process

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 79-82

  17. Miscellaneous activities

    • Leonard Unthank Salkield
    Pages 83-87

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 88-114
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Whether the Phoenicians and t he In the south-west of the Iberian Carthaginians ever actually worked Peninsula there is a vast pyritic the mines , or were merely traders, is mineral ised zone, known as the not certain , but after 205 BC, when Andevallo, extending from near they defeated the Carthagi nians, the Seville to south of Lisbon, an area Romans brought their own men skilled some 150 kilometres long and 30 in mining and metallurgy. kilometres wide. The Romans occupied most of the The Rio Tinta Mines , which are the Iberian Peninsula for 600 years , largest of this "pyrites belt" , lie until about 425 AD - the most recent in the region known as Andalusia, Roman coins found at Rio Tinto show some 90 kilometres north-west of the head of Honorius who was emperor Seville and 75 kilometres north-east from 395 to 423 AD. Mining must of Huelv8 . They have a very long have declined with the invasion of history, dating back to pre-Iberian Barbarians in the 5th century and the times; then came the Iberians , a race subsequent entr y of the Visigoths who of North African origin (Turdetarian were eventually absorbed into the and Tartessian) , the Phoenicians , the people of Spain. In 711 AD the Carthaginians , the Romans , the Moors, Moors invaded the Peninsula from the Spaniards and the British. It North Africa.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A technical history of the Rio Tinto mines: some notes on exploitation from pre-Phoenician times to the 1950s

  • Authors: Leonard Unthank Salkield

  • Editors: Maurice J. Cahalan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3377-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-900488-95-5Published: 30 June 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8017-0Published: 23 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3377-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 116

  • Number of Illustrations: 147 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

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