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There are interesting articles and books here about Cornish and world geology/mining, miner's and laws dating from the late 1700's

Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A Treatise on Minerals, Mines, and Mining :....	William Pryce	Published 1778

The Laws of the Stannaries of Cornwall: To which are Added the Several Acts of Parliament ... ...	Tregonning	Published 1808
English industries of the middle ages, being an introduction to the industrial history of medieval England	By L.F.Salzman	Published 1913
The stannaries, a study of the English tin miner Vol 3	By George Randell Lewis	Published 1907
Substance of a Report on the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Stannaries in Cornwall	By Sir George Harrison	Published 1835
Procedure in the Court of the Vice Warden of the Stannaries: New Orders, Rules and Forms, with ...	Publisher H Sweet	Published 1856
The Stannaries Act, 1869: Edited with Notes Explanatory of Its Several Sections, and with ...	J Batten	Published 1873
Article. "The jurisdiction of the Lord Warden of the Stannaries the time of Sir Walter Raleigh." From original documents	A.H.A.Hamilton.	Read at Ashburton, Devon July 1876.
Observations on the rich parts of the lodes of Cornwall,	Prof. L. Moissenet	Published 1877

A Handbook to the Mineralogy of Cornwall and Devon: With Instructions for Their Discrimination ...	J.H. Collins FRS	Published 1871
Observations on the tin trade of the ancients in Cornwall, and on the 'Ictis' of Diodorus Siculus	Christopher Hawkins	Published 1811
Interviews with Mining Engineers	Thomas A. Rickard	Published 1922
Manual of mining tools, illustrated by an atlas	William Morgans	Published 1871
The Land Laws	Sir Frederick Pollock	Published 1883 / 87 / 96
A Sketch of the Geology of Cornwall: Including a Brief Description of the Mining Districts and ...	B. Symonds	Published 1884
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales	H.M.S.O.	Published 1846
The Geology of Falmouth and Truro and of the Mining District of Camborne and Redruth	J.B. Hill	Published 1906
A History of the Trade in Tin	Phillip William Flower	Published 1880
Observations on the Detrital Tin-ore of Cornwall	W.J. Henwood	Published 1873
Cornwall: its mines and miners	J.R. Liefchild	Published 1855
The recent geology of Cornwall	William A E Ussher	Published 1879
West Barbary', or Notes on the system of work and wages in the Cornish mines	L.L. Price	Published 1891
Annals of British Geology	J.F. Blake M.A. F.G.S.	Publshed 1892
Geology of the British Isles	Editor J.W.Evans	Published 1918
Catalogue of the fossil Bryozoa in the Department of geology, British museum (Nautral history) The Jurassic Bryozoa	J.W.Gregory	Published 1896
A handbook to a collection of the minerals of the British Islands, mostly selected from the Ludlam collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology	F. W. (Frederick William Rudler, I.S.O. F.G.S.	Published 1905
Figures and Descriptions of the Palæozoic Fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset	John Phillps F.R.S. F.G.S.	Published 1841
A guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End; comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of western Cornwall	John AyrtonParis,	Published 1828

The geology of the Isles of Scilly	By George Barrow	Published 1906

Geology and Mining Abroad

The gold mines of the world		James Herbert Curle		Published 1899

The tin resources of the British Empire		N.M. Penzer		Published 1921
Tin Deposits of the World: With a Chapter on Tin Smelting		Sidney Fawns		Published 1907
Using applied geology to discover large copper and gold mines in Arizona, Chile, and Peru /		J. David Lowell		Published 1998
Australia
Geological observations in South Australia		Julian Edmund Tenison Woods		Published 1862
Geology of the Vegetable Creek tin-mining field, New England district, New South Wales with maps and sections		T.W. Edgeworth David.		Published 1887
Geology of the Broken Hill lode and Barrier Ranges mineral field, New South Wales		John Blockley Jaquet		Published 1920
An Account of Some Geological Specimens from the Coasts of Australia		William Henry Fitton		Published 1826
Record of the mines of South Australia		South Australia. Dept. of Mines.		Published 1908
South Australia and its mines		Francis Dutton		Published 1846
Catalogue of South Australian minerals		South Australia. Geological Dept		Published 1893
Canada
The minerals and geology of central Canada, comprising the provinces of Ontario and Quebec		E.J. Chapman		Published 1888
Elementary geology with special reference to Canada		A.P. Coleman & W.A. Parkes		Published 1922
Lectures, notes on geology, and outline of the geology of Canada [microform] : for the use of students : with figures of characteristic fossils		J.W. Dawson		Published 1880
Notes on the Post-Pliocene Geology of Canada: With Especial Reference to the Conditions of ...		J.W. Dawson		Published 1872
Synopsis of the geology of Canada [microform] : being a summary of the principal terms employed in Canadian geological nomenclature		Henry Marc Ami		Published 1891
On the later physiographical geology of the Rocky Mountain region in Canada [microform] : with special reference of changes in elevation and the history of the glacial period		George M. Dawson		Published 1890
Copper mining in Canada East		Herbert Williams		Published 1865
Practical suggestions on mining rights and privileges in Canada : with an appendix containing the gold mining regulations & c.		Hart, Adolphus M.		Published 1867
The real Cobalt, the story of Canada's marvellous silver mining camp -		Anson A.Gard,		Published 1908
British Columbia, the mineral province of Canada : being a short history of mining in the province, a synopsis of the mining laws in force, statistics of mineral production to date, and a brief summary of the progress of mining during 1914		British Columbia		Published 1915
Gold in Canada: the Chaudiere valley and its mineral wealth		Quebec Morning Chronicle		Published 1880
Mexico
Geology of Pachuca and El Oro, Mexico		Winchell, Horace V		Published 1921
Geographical and statistical notes on Mexico Includes a history of the Real Del Monte Company.		Romero, Matías,		Published 1898
Narrative of a Tour in North America: Comprising Mexico, the Mines of Real de Monte, the United ... (Volume 1) -		Tudor, Henry		Published 1834
Narrative of a Tour in North America: Comprising Mexico, the Mines of Real de Monte, the United ... (Volume 2) -		Tudor, Henry		Published 1834
Data referring to Mexican mining : prepared in view of the participation of Mexico in the Universal exposition of Paris in 1900				Published 1901
South Africa
Bibliography of South African geology	Harry P. Saunders		Published 1897
The diamond mines of South Africa	Gardner Fred Williams		Published 1905
Men, mines and animals in South Africa	Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer Lord		Published 1895
Diamonds And Gold In South Africa	Theodore Reunert		Published 1893
The deep-level mines of the Rand and their future development	G. A. Denny		Published 1902
The glamour of prospecting	Fred C. Cornell		Published 1920
United States of America
A history of the northern peninsula of Michigan and its people; its mining, lumber and agricultural industries	Alvah L. Sawyer		Published 1911
Picturesque iron and copper mining of northern Michigan	A Witteman		Published 1891
Mining town memories--Colorado and Mexico : oral history transcript / and related material,	Bessie Launder Richards		Published 1967
Souvenir of the Comstock. Embracing the principal views of Virginia City, Gold Hill, Silver City and Sutro	Jas. H, Cockwell		Published c.1890
University of Colorado historical collections	Colorado University		Published 1918
The Klondike, a souvenir;	George G. Cantwell		Published c.1900
Mining camps of British Columbia : a souvenir of Rossland, Nelson, Greenwood, Phoenix, Grand Forks, Kaslo, Revelstoke, Cranbrook, Fernie and the Kootenay, Boundary and Crow's Nest Districts ; illustrated with fifty excellent views of typical scenes	?		Published 1900
The Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-52; being a series of twenty-three letters from Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) to her sister in Massachusetts, and now reprinted from the Pioneer magazine of 1854-55; with synopses of the letters, a foreword, and many typographical and other corrections and emendations	Dame Shirley		Published 1922
Report of the State Board of Geological Survey for the years 1891 and 1892...also a provisional report by Dr. M.E. Wadsworth, State Geologist, upon the geology of the iron, gold and copper districts of Michigan ..			Published 1893

Mining Camps ; a study of American Frontier Government	Charles E Shinn		Published 1885

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