ABSTRACT
Two aspects of the landscape which can be related to industrial development are the natural landscape and the man-made one. Inevitably the two become interrelated through time, but it is more convenient to begin here with the natural landscape. This chapter sets out the way one of the key features of the natural landscape-the underlying mineralswas exploited by industrialists, and the way in which those minerals, in turn, affected the pattern of industrialisation. The intention is not to put forward a crude model of economic determinism, but to explore the complex relationship between minerals and the wider economic pattern.
