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The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall formed in 1814 in Penzance at the Union Hotel is the oldest Geological Society with the Longest run of publications of any Geological Society in the World.Website of the Society is www.geologycornwall.com

To continue this record of publishing it is planned to publish two Transactions in the Bicentennial year of 2014.(this is available to none members of the society) but is provided as part of the annual membership which is maintained in 2015 as £15 annual membership subscription. www.geologycornwall.com

This first new Transaction will be about the Ecology of abandoned mine sites in Cornwall and the second about Elizabeth Carne an early leader in the study of all Geological sciences and Ecology.

Further publishing is planned when an Index of Authors and Scientific papers published in the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall's Transactions 1814-2014 is to made available on CD later in 2015.(this to be provided to Society Members as part of the Membership.(the CD will be available for sale to none members.

LIBRARY OF SOME REFERENCES FROM 1778

The Library Pages contain interesting articles and books about Cornish and World Geology, Minerals and Mining, Miner's and Laws, dating from the late 1700's

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Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining :....	William Pryce	Published 1778

The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall: To which are Added the Several Acts of Parliament ... ...	Tregonning	Published 1808
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English industries of the middle ages, being an introduction to the industrial history of medieval England	By L.F.Salzman	Published 1913
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The stannaries, a study of the English tin miner Vol 3	By George Randell Lewis	Published 1907
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Substance of a Report on the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Stannaries in Cornwall	By Sir George Harrison	Published 1835
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Procedure in the Court of the Vice Warden of the Stannaries: New Orders, Rules and Forms, with ...	Publisher H Sweet	Published 1856
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The Stannaries Act, 1869: Edited with Notes Explanatory of Its Several Sections, and with ...	J Batten	Published 1873
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Article. "The jurisdiction of the Lord Warden of the Stannaries the time of Sir Walter Raleigh." From original documents	A.H.A.Hamilton.	Read at Ashburton, Devon July 1876.
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Observations on the rich parts of the lodes of Cornwall,	Prof. L. Moissenet	Published 1877

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A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon: With Instructions for Their Discrimination ...	J.H. Collins FRS	Published 1871
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Observations on the tin trade of the ancients in Cornwall, and on the 'Ictis' of Diodorus Siculus	Christopher Hawkins	Published 1811
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Interviews with Mining Engineers	Thomas A. Rickard	Published 1922
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Manual of mining tools, illustrated by an atlas	William Morgans	Published 1871
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The Land Laws	Sir Frederick Pollock	Published 1883 / 87 / 96
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A Sketch of the Geology of Cornwall: Including a Brief Description of the Mining Districts and ...	B. Symonds	Published 1884
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales	H.M.S.O.	Published 1846
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The Geology of Falmouth and Truro and of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth	J.B. Hill	Published 1906
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A History of the Trade in Tin	Phillip William Flower	Published 1880
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Observations on the Detrital Tin-ore of Cornwall	W.J. Henwood	Published 1873
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Cornwall: its mines and miners	J.R. Liefchild	Published 1855
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The recent geology of Cornwall	William A E Ussher	Published 1879
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West Barbary', or Notes on the system of work and wages in the Cornish mines	L.L. Price	Published 1891
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Annals of British Geology	J.F. Blake M.A. F.G.S.	Publshed 1892
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Geology of the British Isles	Editor J.W.Evans	Published 1918
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Catalogue of the fossil Bryozoa in the Department of geology, British museum (Nautral history) The Jurassic Bryozoa	J.W.Gregory	Published 1896
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A handbook to a collection of the minerals of the British Islands, mostly selected from the Ludlam collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology	F. W. (Frederick William Rudler, I.S.O. F.G.S.	Published 1905
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Figures and Descriptions of the Palæozoic Fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset	John Phillps F.R.S. F.G.S.	Published 1841
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A guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End; comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of western Cornwall	John AyrtonParis,	Published 1828

The geology of the Isles of Scilly	By George Barrow	Published 1906

Geology and Mining Abroad

The gold mines of the world	James Herbert Curle	Published 1899

The tin resources of the British Empire	N.M. Penzer	Published 1921
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Tin Deposits of the World: With a Chapter on Tin Smelting	Sidney Fawns	Published 1907

Using applied geology to discover large copper and gold mines in Arizona, Chile, and Peru /	J. David Lowell	Published 1998

Australia
Geological observations in South Australia	Julian Edmund Tenison Woods	Published 1862

Geology of the Vegetable Creek tin-mining field, New England district, New South Wales with maps and sections	T.W. Edgeworth David.	Published 1887

Geology of the Broken Hill lode and Barrier Ranges mineral field, New South Wales	John Blockley Jaquet	Published 1920

An Account of Some Geological Specimens from the Coasts of Australia	William Henry Fitton	Published 1826

Record of the mines of South Australia	South Australia. Dept. of Mines.	Published 1908

South Australia and its mines	Francis Dutton	Published 1846

Catalogue of South Australian minerals	South Australia. Geological Dept	Published 1893

Canada
The minerals and geology of central Canada, comprising the provinces of Ontario and Quebec	E.J. Chapman	Published 1888

Elementary geology with special reference to Canada	A.P. Coleman & W.A. Parkes	Published 1922

Lectures, notes on geology, and outline of the geology of Canada [microform] : for the use of students : with figures of characteristic fossils	J.W. Dawson	Published 1880

Notes on the Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada: With Especial Reference to the Conditions of ...	J.W. Dawson	Published 1872

Synopsis of the geology of Canada [microform] : being a summary of the principal terms employed in Canadian geological nomenclature	Henry Marc Ami	Published 1891

On the later physiographical geology of the Rocky Mountain region in Canada [microform] : with special reference of changes in elevation and the history of the glacial period	George M. Dawson	Published 1890

Copper mining in Canada East	Herbert Williams	Published 1865

Practical suggestions on mining rights and privileges in Canada : with an appendix containing the gold mining regulations & c.	Hart, Adolphus M.	Published 1867

The real Cobalt, the story of Canada's marvellous silver mining camp -	Anson A.Gard,	Published 1908

British Columbia, the mineral province of Canada : being a short history of mining in the province, a synopsis of the mining laws in force, statistics of mineral production to date, and a brief summary of the progress of mining during 1914	British Columbia	Published 1915

Gold in Canada: the Chaudiere valley and its mineral wealth	Quebec Morning Chronicle	Published 1880

Mexico
Geology of Pachuca and El Oro, Mexico	Winchell, Horace V	Published 1921

Geographical and statistical notes on Mexico Includes a history of the Real Del Monte Company.	Romero, Matías,	Published 1898

Narrative of a Tour in North America: Comprising Mexico, the Mines of Real de Monte, the United ... (Volume 1) -	Tudor, Henry	Published 1834

Narrative of a Tour in North America: Comprising Mexico, the Mines of Real de Monte, the United ... (Volume 2) -	Tudor, Henry	Published 1834

Data referring to Mexican mining : prepared in view of the participation of Mexico in the Universal exposition of Paris in 1900		Published 1901

South Africa

Bibliography of South African geology	Harry P. Saunders	Published 1897

The diamond mines of South Africa	Gardner Fred Williams	Published 1905

Men, mines and animals in South Africa	Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer Lord	Published 1895

Diamonds And Gold In South Africa	Theodore Reunert	Published 1893

The deep-level mines of the Rand and their future development	G. A. Denny	Published 1902

The glamour of prospecting	Fred C. Cornell	Published 1920

United States of America
A history of the northern peninsula of Michigan and its people; its mining, lumber and agricultural industries	Alvah L. Sawyer	Published 1911

Picturesque iron and copper mining of northern Michigan	A Witteman	Published 1891

Mining town memories--Colorado and Mexico : oral history transcript / and related material,	Bessie Launder Richards	Published 1967

Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Sutro	Jas. H, Cockwell	Published c.1890

University of Colorado historical collections	Colorado University	Published 1918

The Klondike, a souvenir;	George G. Cantwell	Published c.1900

Mining camps of British Columbia : a souvenir of Rossland, Nelson, Greenwood, Phoenix, Grand Forks, Kaslo, Revelstoke, Cranbrook, Fernie and the Kootenay, Boundary and Crow's Nest Districts ; illustrated with fifty excellent views of typical scenes	?	Published 1900

The Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-52; being a series of twenty-three letters from Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) to her sister in Massachusetts, and now reprinted from the Pioneer magazine of 1854-55; with synopses of the letters, a foreword, and many typographical and other corrections and emendations	Dame Shirley	Published 1922

Report of the State Board of Geological Survey for the years 1891 and 1892...also a provisional report by Dr. M.E. Wadsworth, State Geologist, upon the geology of the iron, gold and copper districts of Michigan ..		Published 1893

Mining Camps ; a study of American Frontier Government	Charles E Shinn	Published 1885

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LIBRARY OF SOME REFERENCES FROM 1778