Monographs on Mineral Resources with Special Reference to the British Empire

Description:

This series was published by the Imperial Institute in London. Founded in 1893, the Institute was initially managed by central government, but later management responsibilities were transferred a number of times. In 1916 management was transferred from the Board of Trade to the Colonial Office. A number of Technical Advisory Committees were set up to control the Imperial Institute, one called the Mineral Resources Committee, commissioned this series of monographs on the mineral resources of the Empire. Commencing in 1917, all the monographs were prepared under the direction of the Mineral Resources Committee with the assistance of the scientific and technical staff of the Imperial Institute. Each volume provided details and statistics of the sources of each mineral. The stated aim of this works was to give 'a general account of the occurrences and commercial utilisation of the more important minerals, particularly in the British Empire’.

A remarkable publication providing an overview of mineral resources within the British Empire, and also globally.

Includes: Antimony, Bauxite and Aluminium, Bismuth Ores, Chromium, Coal, Cobalt Ores, Copper Ores, Gold, Lead Ores, Manganese Ores, Mercury Ores, Molybdenum Ores, Nickel Ores, Oil Shales, Platinum Metals, Potash (2nd edition), Silver Ores, Tin Ores, Tungsten Ores, Vanadium Ores.

Scarce set lacking only Zinc (1917) and Petroleum (1921). We can find no evidence that the volume on Gold noted on wrappers as a future publication, was in fact published.

Condition

19 parts, 8vo, orig. wrappers, some wear. Ex-lib. Good. With bookplate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford.