Hardcover • 2010 • English

The Riches Beneath our Feet

By Geoff Coyle

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Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist. In that period of more than 4,000 years the country's miners have produced colossal amounts of copper, tin, lead, zinc, iron, a lot of silver and some gold, and smaller amounts of just about every other metal from arsenic to uranium. The metals were the foundation of our industrial wealth and ease of living but they were driven by King Coal, which at its peak employed a million men and...Show more

History and Archaeology

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2010

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English

Original title

The Riches Beneath our Feet

Format

Hardcover

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