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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2009
Each period has special characteristics, amongst which the pattern of employment is not the least interesting. In all except the first and last, the industry was completely Chinese in capital, management and labour; this is a major fact of Malayan history.
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4. Ibid.
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Kinta is a district in central Perak some: fifty miles south of Larut which has proved to be the main tin-bearing area of the country. After British administration had brought law and order to Perak and had encourage economic development by improving communications and opening up the country, the mining potentialities of the district began to be exploited. The main town of Kinta which sprang up as a result was Ipoh, the present capital of the State, which is the acknowledged centre of Malayan tin mining.
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* A tin dredge is a bucket dredger which floats in a mining pool. It consists essentially of a pontoon which carries power-plant to supply energy to a chain of buckets which are used to excavate earth below ground level. This earth is scooped up by the buckets and dumped into a revolving screen and so into sluice-boxes where the material is washed and the tin-ore recovered. This dressing plant is also on the pontoon.
