London Metropolitan Archives

GENERAL MINING ASSOCIATION

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/070

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GENERAL MINING ASSOCIATION

Date(s): 1829

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): General Mining Association

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Established to mine in Nova Scotia and North America, the Association arose out of the General South American Mining Association originally proposed in 1825 to mine in Brazil.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Deed of Settlement of the General Mining Association.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One item catalogued as CLC/070/MS24532.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1990 and catalogued by a member of Guildhall Library staff in 1991. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Deed of Settlement | Charity records | Documents | Information sources
Mining

Personal names

Corporate names
General Mining Association
Nova Scotia | Canada | North America

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe