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Swansea

Smelter town, United Kingdom, founded 1158.

About Swansea

City in Wales.1

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Places

ExamplesBorAnother smelter town, in the United Kingdom: Swansea.2

Trade routes

Shipped throughChilean copper ore to SwanseaSwansea was an end of the chilean copper ore to swansea route.3Shipped throughCornish copper ore to SwanseaSwansea was an end of the cornish copper ore to swansea route.4Shipped throughSwansea copper to world marketsSwansea was an end of the swansea copper to world markets route.5

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q23051 (Swansea)
  2. Wikidata item Q462461 (Bor)
  3. Los ciclos mineros del cobre y la plata (1820-1880) Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
  4. Associated Industries Cornish Mining World Heritage Site
  5. Copperopolis - world copper project comes to Swansea (press release, 12 April 2012) Swansea University

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: Timna in de Negevwoestijn; rotspartij "de zuilen van Salomo", Poll, Willem van de / 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); Earth Observations taken by the Expedition 15 Crew, NASA JSC (Public domain (NASA media, no copyright)); Mijnramp Bois du Caizier, Marcinelle, België. Schacht, Rossem, Wim van / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).