NUNC COGNOSCO EX PARTE THOMAS], BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/riotintocompanyeOOOOharv THE RIO TINTO COMPANY AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF A LEADING INTERNATIONAL MINING CONCERN 1873-1954 TO MY MOTHER AND TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER THE RIO TINTO COMPANY AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF A LEADING INTERNATIONAL MINING CONCERN 1873-1954 by CHARLES E. HARVEY ALISON HODGE First published in 1981 by Alison Hodge, 5 Chapel Street, Penzance, Cornwall. © Charles Harvey, 1981 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the permission in writing of the publisher. I.S.B.N. 0 906720 03 6 Typesetting by Impulse Phototypesetters Ltd., St. Ives, Cornwall. Origination and printing by Dowrick Design and Print, St. Ives, Cornwall.