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Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800
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Discovery Miles: 81 970
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This volume focuses on Latin America, since it was mainly there
that Europeans (or their colonial descendants) actually engaged in
mining in the 16th-19th centuries; elsewhere they traded metals
mined by others. The principal metals produced, and in prodigious
quantities, were silver, in the Spanish colonies, and gold, mainly
in Brazil in the 18th century. These articles analyse the volume
and pattern of production and the forms of labour found in mining.
Particular attention is given to the technologies of extraction and
refining, notably the adoption of the mercury amalgamation process:
this had a major impact, driving down silver production costs;
because the mercury mines were a royal monopoly, it also handed
control to the Spanish crown.
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