Catalogue Entry: MINT00788

Report, endorsed by James and Thomas Hamilton, on the investigation of the mine at Alva and the ores identified in it

Author: Justus Brandshagen

Source: MINT 19/3/221-6, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Contents

The variety of the ores is 'of an Extraordinary Nature, such as to my Knowledge few or none Like have ever been seen in Europe', though from a commercial point of view only the silver is of interest.

Followed by a diagrammatic map of the mine (Mint 19/3/223-4), a more technical 'Description of the Mine' (Mint 19/3/225), the tabulated result of six assays and the threesome's expense claims for the investigation (Mint 19/3/226).

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