THE MINING YEAR BOOK (1939)

Stunning work with complete record of information concerning mining companies (including all from South Africa), proceeded by 22 folding plates and numerous tables of the annual gold production of the World's Principal Goldfields. Contains also the complete list of Mining and Kindred Companies operating in all parts of the World, complete register of Directors of Mining Companies (with their addresses and the names of the Companies in the present volume with which they are connected), list of Mining & Consulting Engineers, Mine Managers and Agents (with addresses and names of Companies in the present volume for which they are act).

Folding plates shows maps, plans, properties and mineral rights of:

1) Ariston Gold Mines (1929) (Gold Coast Colony, West Africa)

2) Brakpan Mines (Transvaal)

3) Daggafontein Mines, LTD. (Transvaal)

4) East Rand Consolidated, LTD. (Witwatersrand, Transvaal)

5) Gold Coast Selection Trust, LTD. (Gold Coast Colony, West Africa)

6) Great Boulder Proprietary Gold Mines, LTD. (Hannan's East Coolgardie district, Western Australia)

7) Lake View and Star, LTD. (Western Australia)

8) London Tin Corpn., LTD. (showing properties in Malay Peninsula and Siam)

9) Mount Charlotte (Kalgoorlie) Gold Mines, LTD. (Western Australia)

10) New Central Witwatersrand Areas, LTD. (Transvaal)

11) Oceana Development Co., LTD. (Transvaal)

12) Paringa Mining and Exploration Co., LTD. (Western Australia)

13) Rand Leases (Vogelstruisfontein) Gold Mining Co., LTD. (Transvaal)

14) Rand Mines, LTD. (Witwatersrand, Transvaal)

15) The South African Land and Exploration Co., LTD. (Transvaal)

16) Spaarwater Gold Mining Co., LTD. (Transvaal)

17) Spring Mines, LTD. (Transvaal)

18) West Rand Consolidated Mines, LTD. (Transvaal)

19) West Springs, LTD. (Transvaal)

20) West Witwatersrand Areas, LTD. (Transvaal)

21) Western Reefs Exploration and Development Co., LTD. (Transvaal)

22) Wiluna Gold Corporation, LTD. (Western Australia)

With complete register of Mining Directors and Mining & Consulting Engineers, Mine Managers, Agents, &c. This is an extremely rare copy of this precious work, hard to find even in National and University Libraries - and the only copy selling on internet!

Original red cloth; Collation complete - Title page, lxxii, 872 pages, [3] pages including adverts, further adverts interleaved; Binding is tight and firm, worn as usual for the age, boards and spine rubbed, cloth little tarnished, spine and boards extremities bumped. Text block/pages in very good condition, extremities of pages yellowed, but clean and very bright without foxing throughout except pages 445-470 which are wrinkly and affected by foxing. A few front and rear adverts pages also affected with foxing. Folding plates are whole and clean, overall in excellent condition for the age (see pics).

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