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Sources for Mining Company History in Africa: The History and Records of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation (Ghana), Ltd.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Raymond E. Dumett
Raymond E. Dumett
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Raymond E. Dumett is associate professor of history at Purdue University
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Abstract

The history of mining enterprise has recently become an important growth industry in both African and British Commonwealth business history. A number of important multinational mining corporations have in recent years opened their archives on assimilated or restructured parent companies active in overseas enterprise in the first half of this century. In the following essay, Professor Dumett surveys the extensive holdings of the leading British gold mining company in West Africa, the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation.

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Business History Review , Volume 62 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1988 , pp. 502 - 515
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1988

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