GOLD MINING IN SALAIR IN THE LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-4-32-38
Abstract
The research determines the dynamics of gold mining and identifies the specifics of the development of the gold industry in Salair in the late XIX – early XX centuries. The Salair ridge was then under the jurisdiction of the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty. At the end of the XIX century, the Cabinet spent a lot of money on geological survey of the ridge and invested in the development of the local gold mines. The extraction of gold during this period fluctuated within 6–8 poods (1 pood = 16 kg). At the beginning of the XX century, the Cabinet leased the Salair mines to private entrepreneurs and joint-stock companies. Such agreements were signed by Prince A. von Thurn und Taxis and Dr. Josef Jeanne (Austria), Arthur Stanley and mining engineer Farrukh Bek-Vezirov (Great Britain), State Councilor Berezin (Russia), and The Russian Gold Mining Company. Private companies operated more successfully than the Cabinet. In the XX century the extraction of gold in Salair increased. However, after the companies had developed the ready retrievable gold deposits, they ceased operating. As the calculations have shown, more than 3.6 tons of gold were mined on the Salair Ridge in 1892 – 1915. The main feature of the Salair gold mining was that gold was extracted both by the Cabinet and private companies, which means that state and private capital acted in parallel.
Supporting agencies: Of the programme of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences XII.190.2. "The historical development of Siberia as part of the Russian State: the role of tradition and innovation". Project "Creating the industrial base of Kuzbass in the late XIX – first half of the XX centuries" (0352-2016-0004).
About the Author
A. N. Ermolaev
Federal Research Center for Coal and Coal Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
18, Sovetsky Ave., Kemerovo, Russia, 650000
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Ermolaev A.N. GOLD MINING IN SALAIR IN THE LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2018;(4):32-38. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-4-32-38
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