King Copper: South Wales and the Copper Trade 1584-1895

by Ronald Rees

For the whole of the eighteenth century and much of the nineteenth, a belt of coastal smelters--using local coals and ores from Cornwall, Cuba, and Chile--produced virtually all of Britain's copper, and much of the world's. Copper brought considerable wealth to Swansea, the center of the industry, and to several neighboring towns. But there was a price for the prosperity. The billowing clouds of toxic, foul-smelling smoke that copper production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708324916
• ISBN13: 9780708324912
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"