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OverviewTo speak of mining in newly independent Mexico is to speak of silver. And silver, historically abundant in the Real del Monte-Pachuca district, was the object of the Company of Adventurers in the Mines of Real del Monte. Organized in response to a plea by Pedro Romero de Terreros for help in rehabilitating his famous family's once-rich properties, the English Real del Monte was led by men convinced that the application of English capital, management practices, and technology to those ruined mines and mills would reap them a profit and would revitalize the new nation's most promising industry. The adventurers were to be disappointed. The story of the English company is one of financial disaster: the loss of more than $5 million between its beginning in 1824 and its dissolution in 1849. Yet this failure was ironic, for upon the foundations of the English company was built a modern concern that yielded great rewards to Mexican and American successors to the hapless Englishmen. A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry. It offers specific solutions to poorly understood historical problems concerning the wave of capital that flowed from Great Britain into Latin America upon the disruption of the Spanish Empire, problems hitherto treated only in generalizations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert W. RandallPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Volume: 26 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781477304679ISBN 10: 1477304673 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 01 January 1972 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface A Note on Spanish Words and on Weights, Measures, and Currency Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Formation in London 3. Establishment in Mexico 4. Management and Finance 5. Mining Operations 6. Milling Operations 7. Labor 8. Supplies 9. Real del Monte and Mexico 10. Dissolution Appendix A: Contract between the Third Count of Regla and the British Real del Monte Company for the Working of the Regla Mines in Mexico, 1 July 1824 Appendix B: Regulations Drawn up by the British Real del Monte Company for the Underground Working of Its Mines, with Respect to the Partido and the Obliga tions of the Miners, 1 September 1827 Bibliographical Notes Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationRobert W. Randall was Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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