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5 items extracted from J 90/1697. Five sheets of plans and sections of mines in Axim...
Catalogue reference: MPI 1/497
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This record is about the 5 items extracted from J 90/1697. Five sheets of plans and sections of mines in Axim... dating from [1881]-1883 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPI 1/497
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1881]-1883
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Description (What the record is about)
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5 items extracted from J 90/1697. Five sheets of plans and sections of mines in Axim district, Gold Coast Colony (now Ghana). (1) and (2) 'Mines of Izrah Hill in the Appolonia Territory, Axim District of the Gold Coast Colony'. Reference tables. Scales: 1 inch to about 1 mile. Compass indicators. In the upper margins: 'Map showing the Property to be acquired by The Guinea Coast Gold Mining Company, Limited'. Printed, coloured. (3) 'Izrah Mine': ground plan, longitudinal and cross sections, on one sheet. Scale: 1 inch to 8 fathoms. By T George Sweet, 1 January 1883. MS, coloured, on tracing cloth. (4) Izrah Mine: ground plan, longitudinal and transverse sections. Scale: 1 inch to 8 fathoms. MS, coloured. (1)-(4) were exhibits in the cause Re Guinea Coast Gold Mining Co. (5) 'Plan showing position of the Yerimah Concession'. Scale: 1 inch to 20 fathoms. Compass indicator. By T George Sweet, Axim, 23 March 1883. MS, on tracing cloth. Dimensions of sheets: (1) and (2) 37 cm x 46cm; (3) 50 cm x 75cm; (4) 46 cm x 75cm; (5) 63 cm x 75 cm.
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See also MPII 1/76
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 3. Africa, ed P A Penfold (London, 1982), entry 1058 (1)-(4) and entry 1060A (5)
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