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Rather than being the product of a panel in a conference or workshop, the following cluster of three articles came about through a serendipitous conjuncture of submissions. This may reflect the fact that mining is a subject that lends itself easily to treatment by global historians, at least in the era of modern transport, as supplies of raw materials are often located capriciously far from processors, and from consumers of final products.
Chris Evans and Olivia Saunders demonstrate that there was quite an abrupt shift for the copper-smelting industry of Swansea (Abertawe) in South Wales in the 1830s. From handling relatively local Cornish and North Welsh ores, the Welsh port quickly moved to obtaining supplies from across the world, bolstered by abundant stocks of excellent coal,...