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Kuala Lumpur

Boom town, Malaysia, founded 1857.

About Kuala Lumpur

Federal territory and capital city of Malaysia.1

Where next

Places

ExamplesIpohAnother boom town in Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur.2

Trade routes

Shipped throughMalay States tin ore to Penang smeltersKuala Lumpur was an end of the malay states tin ore to penang smelters route.3

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1865 (Kuala Lumpur)
  2. Wikidata item Q271619 (Ipoh)
  3. Wong Lin Ken, Singapore: Its Growth as an Entrepot Port, 1819-1941 Cambridge University Press (journal article, DOI 10.1017/S002246340000953X)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Pictures: Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Dolcoath tin mine, Camborne, Cornwall: miners in a mine shaft, standing on wooden platforms connected by ladders. Photograph by J. C. Burrow, 1890/1910., Burrow, J. C., 1852-1914 (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Chiquicamata Mine, Chile, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)).