Gold
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown, 01 July 1898
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown of the firm Forster Brown and Rees, Mining and Civil Engineers requesting a reference or some assistance to help him ascertain whether gold or silver is mined on Islay, the annual value of such and the composition of other minerals recovered.
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown, 09 July 1898
Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Thomas Forster Brown thanking him for arranging for a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain staff to investigate his request concerning gold and silver mining on Islay.
Observations made on a boat journey between Tarbert and Isle of Taransay, 7 August 1870
Output of Gold, 1870s-1930s
Text and figures discussing the output of gold in Souther Rhodesia between 1891 and 1907 - total of 2,601,830 ounces at a value of £9,300,000. It also notes the amounts of silver, lead, coal, copper, wolfarmite ore, scheelite, chrome iron ore, antimony, diamonds and other precious stones produced.
Place-name and archaeological notes relating to Loisgcintir [Losgaintir/Luskentyre], 7 July 1870
Reprints, 1872-1914
- reprints of scholarly articles by James Geikie
- reprint of scholarly article by John Somerville Geikie
- reprints of testimonials for James Geikie
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence (gold), mid 19th century
The Sir Roderick Impey Murchison correspondence (gold) consists of:
- correspondence, alphabetically arranged
- geological drawings
- notes
- presscuttings
Story about Vikings shipwrecked on Mollacag, 23 May 1869
Story collected from Roderick MacNeil, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay which tells how a Long Lochlannach [Viking ship] was broken on a rock called Mollacag at Airghrian [possibly Àird Ghrèin] about '120 or 60 years ago' [c1750 or c1810 or c1710, if 160 years ago is meant]. The gullies filled up with the bodies. The females were drowned, their gold taken away and they were refused permission 'to build in the sea'. The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story relating to Fuday, 24 September 1872
Story relating to Fuday [Fuideigh] in which the illegitimate son of MacNeil of Barra, Mac an Amhuris, avenges the abduction of his daughter by Lochlannaich [Vikings] by going to Fuday and killing them all. The remains of the Lochlannaich periodically washed up on shore. Two boys found gold on Fuday, which, after the death of their father, who had persuaded them to keep the gold, they used to buy property in Cape Breton, Canada following their emigration.
Summary of Gold Raised in Australasia, 1851 - 1903, 1870s-1930s
Table summarizing the ounces of gold raised in Australasia between 1851 to 1903.