Swansea Ships and Copper
Many of the rich industrialists of the time found Swansea an ideal site for their copper works, because of the large reserves of high grade coal close to the navigable River Tawe. Three to …
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Swansea Copper: A Global History | Hopkins Press
Ships began carrying copper ores to Swansea from the other side of the world: from Cuba, from South Australia, and from Chile. For the next three decades or so, Swansea Copper was at its fullest extent. Thousands of tons of copper …
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Copperopolis
The first copper works in Swansea were established in Landore in 1720 by Dr Lane and Mr Pollard, who had owned copper mines in Cornwall. That year Swansea was described as "the best built and most cleanly town in all Wales".
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Project MUSE
The first book to detail the global impact of copper production in Swansea, Wales, and how a major technological shift transformed the British Isles into the world's most dynamic center of copper smelting.Eighteenth-century Swansea, Wales, was to copper what nineteenth-century Manchester was to cotton or twentieth-century Detroit to the automobile.
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Swansea copperworks: Industry was 'Google of its day'
South American copper was shipped to Swansea for smelting, as three times as much coal than ore was required for the process. In 1855 daily clipper ships from Chile rounded Cape Horn in the ...
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Swansea Consolidated Gold and Copper Mining Company II
Swansea Consolidated Gold and Copper Mining Company II. Contributing Institution Arizona Geological Survey Subcollection Summary. Location: Swansea, Yuma County. Note: the location of the mine is in present-day La Paz County. The documents date from the 1920s and 1940s when this area was still Yuma County.
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Copper Ore: An Unlikely Global Commodity
The 1830s and 1840s saw a global division of labour come into being to supply feedstock to Swansea – 'Copperopolis' – whose furnaces were at that time responsible for over 40 per cent of the world output of smelted copper. Ore was carried to Swansea Bay.
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White Rock Copper Works, Swansea
Why Swansea? It was all about geography and geology, and specifically about the development of coal power, over wood fuel, to smelt the copper ore. Coal-smelting technology …
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Abandoned Ghost Town Of Swansea In Arizona
The name for the town has its origins in international copper ore smelting. Swansea in the United Kingdom's South Wales was the final destination for the copper ore mined in this part of Arizona for a short time period. Once the post office was established and a smelter installed, the town changed its name from Signal to Swansea. ...
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Swansea Copperworks
Copper-smelting at Swansea was carried out by 'the Welsh method', which involved successive roastings of ore - at least twenty of them. The reverbatory-type furnaces drew the heat through and reflected it off vaulted roofs, allowing the metal to be uncontaminated by the coal.
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Ships and Seamen
Swansea Museum owns and sails the Bristol Channel pilot cutter Olga, which can be seen in Swansea Marina when not sailing around Swansea Bay. The copper-ore barques were heavy, bulky vessels built for stamina not speed. Their crews were mainly Welsh, but tended to be rural not urban men. The wages paid to those in industry were so high that ...
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Swansea Mine
The Swansea Mine is a copper mine located in La Paz county, Arizona at an elevation of 1,601 feet. Skip to content. Western Mining History. Sign In. Menu. Menu. Mining History. Mining Towns; Mines; ... Owner Name: Clara Consolidated Mining Co. Owner Name: John Challinor Home Office: Phoenix, Az. Years: 1971 - 1973. Production. Year: 1930 Time ...
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7. HAFOD-MORFA COPPERWORKS, SWANSEA
In the 18th century the Bristol Channel was seen as an opportunity for transport rather than a barrier, and this made Swansea with its sheltered harbour an attractive place to bring copper …
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Swansea copperworks: Industry was 'Google of its …
South American copper was shipped to Swansea for smelting, as three times as much coal than ore was required for the process.
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Swansea Copper: A Global History | University of South Wales
Swansea Copper: A Global History is the first book to detail the global impact of copper production in Swansea, Wales, and how a major technological shift transformed the …
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The Beginning of the Copper Industry
The first copper works in Swansea were established in Landore in 1720 by Dr Lane and Mr Pollard, who had owned copper mines in Cornwall. Three to four tons of coal was needed to …
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A world of copper: globalizing the Industrial Revolution, 1830–70
For most of human history the smelting of metallic ores has been performed immediately adjacent to the ore body. In the 1830s the copper industry that was centred on Swansea in the UK departed abruptly from that ancient pattern: Swansea smelters shipped in ores from very distant locations, including sites in Australasia, Latin America, and southern Africa.
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Swansea Ghost Town – Abandoned Copper Mines of Western …
And this meant that copper ore had to be transported to other areas for smelting, such places included Swansea Wales were the refined copper was shipped. In 1909 signal was renamed after one of the destinations for copper smelting, called Swansea. In the same year the first post office was commissioned, which was in operation up through 1924.
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Copper in Wales
Copper-smelting at Swansea was carried out by 'the Welsh method', which involved successive roastings of ore - at least twenty of them. The reverbatory-type furnaces drew the …
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Welsh Copper Society
The Welsh copper industries of mining, smelting and refining created generations of talented workers. Although dominated by men, women took part too, particularly in the North Wales mines. ... trade, were known as the 'Welsh Process'. It was adopted elsewhere too, and became the favoured method of smelting. Swansea man Thomas Williams built ...
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Copper: An Ancient Metal | Dartmouth Toxic Metals
The Cornish copper ore purified in the Swansea smelters was high in arsenic, sulfur, and fluorspar (a compound of the element fluorine). The smelters emitted fumes from these compounds along with exhaust from the coal that fired the …
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Swansea AZ Is The Creepiest Abandoned Town In Arizona
Swansea was settled in 1909 as a small mining and smelting town. Wikimedia Commons. The name for the town has its origins in international copper ore smelting. Swansea in the United Kingdom's South Wales was the final destination for the copper ore mined in this part of Arizona for a short time period. Once the post office was established and ...
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60 Centuries of Copper: The Welsh Process
According to Alexander, the ore at Swansea, after being broken into small lumps by hammers, was hand-sorted by ; hence much good metal must have been wasted. The selected ore was then calcined no fewer than three times to reduce the sulphur content down to about 11 per cent.
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Global Sources of Copper
These mines are of copper, and the ore is all shipped to Swansea, to be smelted. Hence the mines have an aspect singularly quiet, as compared to those in England: here no smoke, furnaces, or great steam-engines, disturb the solitude of the surrounding mountains. Charles Darwin on the copper mines of Chile, 1834.
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Historians urge Swansea to cash in on copper legacy
"In the 1830s, it required three tons of coal to smelt one ton of copper ore, so thanks to Swansea's easily navigable docks and proximity to the south Wales coalfields, it made economic sense to ...
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(DOC) Swansea's Copper Industry: Rise, Fall, and …
Chris Evans, 'El Cobre: Cuban ore and the globalization of Swansea copper, 1830-70' Welsh History Review, 27 (2014), 112-131. and from South Australia where at Burra the Monster Mine produced ore that was shipped to Swansea …
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Discover with Jo… A Cape Horner's Life at Sea
Swansea's Cape Horners were highly regarded amongst the sailing elite. The men were skilled and hardworking, and a Swansea Cape Horner was a character reference for seamen. What ships did they sail? Swansea's Cape Horners sailed in copper ore barques, like the 'Zeta'. They were heavy, bulky vessels built for strength not speed, carrying ...
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Museum Copper
Delta was employed in the Chilean copper ore trade. She ceased trading in 1908. ... Robert Morris and the First Swansea Copper Works c.1727-1730, 2010, p. 38) The Welsh Process was the complex method of extracting copper from its ores during the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries.
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Heritage building set to be saved by council and Swansea firm
In the copperworks' heyday, copper ore from around the world was smelted at the Swansea site, putting the area at the centre of a global web of copper trading connections. The Laboratory Building was probably used to test the quality of copper ore coming into the copperworks that helped put Swansea on the world's industrial map.
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West Swansea | Gold Rush Expeditions, Inc®
Finally in 1964 the property had been severed from the Swansea Mining Company and was referred to as the Copper Spike. The ore on the property is in a series of veins and pockets. Copper ore averages 8% and gold follows with …
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