By John Woodland

Among 1849 and 1853 stocks in approximately a hundred and twenty public businesses to use the booming goldfields of California and Australia have been provided to the British public. the firms have been jointly capitalised at over £15 million, yet in any case just some £1.75 million used to be truly raised among forty two of them, with just one corporation surviving what the newspapers of the day defined as a ‘gold bubble’. This e-book presents an outline of the full bubble occasion, its antecedents and its results. a few researchers have investigated an previous growth within the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin the USA and several other have studied person corporation operations of that interval. this is often the 1st targeted research of the British gold bubble businesses of the 1850s and their involvement within the nearly simultaneous gold rushes on each side of the Pacific Ocean.

Contents: Preface; an summary of the ‘gold bubble’ businesses; Getting begun: the corporate promoters; Forming the firms; executive rules and mining legislation; Operations in California; Operations in Australia; Shareholder activists; the one good fortune tale; The final hurrah; end; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
About the writer: After a profession in geology, the latter half gaining knowledge of previous gold mines as pathfinders to new deposits, John forest became to writing approximately them, particularly the disastrous part of British corporation gold mining within the 1850s, the explanations in the back of its nearly common failure, and what classes have been realized.

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