Mineral resources including petroleum, coal, and gold — concessions, exploration reports, and correspondence with mining companies.

109 volumes across 13 series.

ReferenceSeriesVolume TitleTNA
CO 1022/177CO 1022Proposed development of the Rom Pin iron ore deposits in Pahang, Malaya, by the Eastern Mining and Metals Company
CO 1022/178CO 1022Proposed development of the Rom Pin iron ore deposits in Pahang, Malaya, by the Eastern Mining and Metals Company
CO 1022/179CO 1022Development of Temangan Iron Mine in Kelantan, Malaya
CO 1022/180CO 1022Question of Japanese participation in the Malayan mining industry
CO 1022/21CO 1022Effect of the Emergency on the mining industry in Malaya: monthly reports on casualties and damage
CO 1022/363CO 1022Criticism of Borneo territories’ oil affairs
CO 1022/40CO 1022Closure of the Kajang Kemaman tin mine in Malaya
CO 1022/436CO 1022Colonial Development Corporation (CDC) scheme for the Kulai Oil Palm Estate, Malaya
CO 1022/95CO 1022Unified Colonial Development Corporation (CDC) Scheme in North Borneo for Abaca, Rubber, Oil Palms and Manila Hemp
CO 1022/96CO 1022Unified Colonial Development Corporation (CDC) Scheme in North Borneo for Abaca, Rubber, Oil Palms and Manila Hemp
CO 1030/1226CO 1030Sarawak Coal Mining
CO 1030/1227CO 1030Sarawak coal mining
CO 1030/14CO 1030Federation of Malaya: Emergency. Reports of the casualties and damage in the mining industry as result of emergency
CO 1030/1479CO 1030Malaysia. Oil and mineral revenues
CO 1030/1530CO 1030Tripartite Agreement on Malaysia. Brunei oil reserves
CO 1030/183CO 1030Temangan iron ore mine
CO 1030/184CO 1030Development of Rompin iron ore deposits in Pahang by Eastern Mining and Metals Company
CO 1030/185CO 1030Japanese participation in mining industry
CO 1030/413CO 1030Disposal of parcel of diamonds, gold and platinum handed to British Military Administration upon the liberation of Singapore in 1945
CO 1047/882CO 1047Straits Settlements and Malay Peninsula. ‘Perak’, showing agricultural, mining and reserves areas surveyed before and during 1909. Lithographed, cloth. 1:253, 440. Revenue Survey Office, Taiping 1910
CO 1047/885CO 1047Straits Settlements and Malay Peninsula. ‘Selangor Federated Malay States 1910’, showing relief and drainage, administration, communications, alienated agricultural and mining land and forest and other reserves. 4 sheets. Lithographed, cloth. 2 miles to an inch. Central Survey Office, Kuala Lumpur
CO 1047/895CO 1047Straits Settlements and Malay Peninsula. ‘Pahang. Federated Malay States 1912. Revised with hills 1915’, showing agricultural, mining and forest reserves land. 6 sheets mounted as one. Heliozincographed, cloth. 4 miles to an inch. Central Survey Office, Kuala Lumpur
CO 1054/88CO 1054Asia: Borneo. Oil Concessions on West Coast of North Borneo. c 1:775,000
CO 1069/499CO 1069Malaysia 17. Tin mining on Malaya, 1927
CO 1069/522CO 1069SABAH 7. Manganese mining and shipping of ore in North Borneo, 1900s, with some prints on rubber plantations
CO 273/535/8CO 273Mining rights on Labuan Island
CO 273/539/7CO 273Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards: correspondence; Admiralty dues payable on fuel oil stored at Singapore
CO 273/542/7CO 273Oil concessions in the Netherlands East Indies
CO 273/545/4CO 273Wharfage charges on Admiralty fuel oil
CO 273/557/17CO 273Lease of mining rights on Labuan to Labuan Collieries Company Limited: memorandum and articles of association of the company
CO 273/560/18CO 273Asiatic Petroleum Company proposal to establish storage installations at Pasir Panjang
CO 273/568/12CO 273Oil concessions in Brunei
CO 273/576/10CO 273Oil concessions in Brunei
CO 273/578/1CO 273Memorials and Petitions. Chinese miners of Kampar urging Government to withdraw its support to the Byrne Scheme for the proposed stoppage of mining for two months
CO 273/648/16CO 273Mining: restoration of land
CO 531/21/4CO 531Sarawak: Composition and Organization of Local Forces with Regard to Protection of Miri Oil- Fields
CO 531/23/2CO 531Proposed Exploitation of Coal Deposits at Silanty, Sarawak by Japanese Capital
CO 531/23/3CO 531Colonial Development Fund: Possibility of Assistance to Save North Borneo Coal Industry
CO 531/24/12CO 531Oil Concessions: Grant to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company: Inquiries by Japan
CO 531/25/2CO 531Oil Concession: Grant to Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company
CO 531/26/9CO 531Aerial Survey of Part of North Borneo on Behalf of Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company: Use of Dutch Aircraft for Preliminary Reconnaissance
CO 531/27/10CO 531Question of the grant of a coal mining concession to a Japanese firm in Sarawak
CO 531/27/12CO 531Formation of New Company to Operate Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company’s Concession
CO 537/6866CO 537Defence. Protection of Oil Storage Depots: Federation of Malaya
CO 537/7363CO 537North Borneo. Sarawak and Brunei Oil Companies: Proposals to Transfer Offices and Boards
CO 537/7753CO 537Economic. Oil: Brunei
CO 700 Labuan and Borneo/3CO 700Labuan and Borneo. Map of Labuan. [Showing lands alienated by Government. Inset: Detailed plan of Coal Point.] M. S. 8 chains to 1 inch. Author, Publisher, &c.: Official, Labuan
CO 717/100/26CO 717Oil industry in Brunei: concessions
CO 717/102/17CO 717Oil industry in Brunei: concessions
CO 717/113/11CO 717Enactment no. 1 of 1935: Mining (Amendment) Enactment
CO 717/115/14CO 717Gold: taxation
CO 717/138/4CO 717Report on the mining industry of Malaya by Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor
CO 717/140/21CO 717Delimitation of mining areas in Perak
CO 717/147/16CO 717Enactment no. 11 of 1941: Mining Beneath Alienated Lands Enactment
CO 717/208/5CO 717Palm products: Colonial Development Corporation Scheme: oil palm estate
CO 717/208/6CO 717Palm products: Colonial Development Corporation Scheme: oil palm estate
CO 717/59/8CO 717Tin mining leases
CO 717/62/7CO 717Mining Enactment, 1928: no. 19 of 1928
CO 717/73/17CO 717Purchase of tin shares by foreigners: the Mining (Amendment) Enactment, 1930
CO 717/74/17CO 717Mining rights in Johore
CO 717/75/11CO 717Estimates, 1931: fuel oil duties
CO 717/76/2CO 717Lease for mining land in Kinta District of Perak: application from F. J. Bryant
CO 717/77/21CO 717Brunei oil industry: quarterly returns
CO 717/79/10CO 717Purchase of tin mining shares by foreigners
CO 717/80/2CO 717Mining rights in Johore
CO 717/87/2CO 717Brunei oil industry: quarterly returns
CO 717/92/10CO 717Oil industry in Brunei: enclosures
CO 717/92/9CO 717Oil industry in Brunei: reports
CO 717/97/11CO 717Enactments. Amendment of Mining Enactment
CO 874/1000CO 874Correspondence. Gold
CO 874/1021CO 874Correspondence. British North Borneo Gold Concession Ltd.
CO 874/1055CO 874Correspondence. Oil Concessions Policy
CO 874/1069CO 874Correspondence. Anglo-Saxon Petrol Co.: Oil Concessions
CO 874/1070CO 874Correspondence. Anglo-Saxon Petrol Co.: Oil Concessions
CO 874/1071CO 874Correspondence. Anglo-Saxon Petrol Co.: Oil Concessions
CO 874/1072CO 874Correspondence. Anglo-Saxon Petrol Co.: Oil Concessions
CO 874/1073CO 874Correspondence. Anglo-Saxon Petrol Co.: Oil Concessions
CO 874/1095CO 874Correspondence. Coal Concessions
CO 874/143CO 874Reports. Notes on a Natural Oil Obtained from “Oil Shale” in North Borneo by F. Hatton and W. R. Hodgkinson
CO 874/149CO 874Reports. Segama Gold-Field by S. E. J. Skertchly
CO 874/150CO 874Reports. Petroleum in Borneo by Wallace Bros
CO 874/152CO 874Reports. An inspection of the Silimpopon collieries by Godfrey E. Morgans
CO 874/158CO 874Reports. Oil Palm Cultivation by E. Bateson
CO 874/160CO 874Reports. Report on the Silimpopon Coal Mines and Property by Forster Brown and Rees and Subsequent Discussions
CO 874/349CO 874Correspondence. Oil and Mineral Rights, Agreements
CO 874/350CO 874Correspondence. Coal Discoveries
CO 874/351CO 874Correspondence. Coal Discoveries
CO 874/352CO 874Correspondence. Oil Discoveries
CO 874/372CO 874Correspondence. Coal, Transport between the Mine and Sandakan
CO 874/373CO 874Correspondence. Coal, Prospecting in Sandakan Bay
CO 874/374CO 874Correspondence. Silimpopon Colliery and coal lands
CO 874/484CO 874Correspondence. Candle Nuts & Tung Oil
CO 874/634CO 874Correspondence. British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate
CO 874/635CO 874Correspondence. British Borneo Petroleum Syndicate
CO 874/63ACO 874Agreements, assignments, commissions, conveyances, deeds, leases, etc. Mineral and mining agreements
CO 874/63BCO 874Agreements, Assignments, Commissions, Conveyances, Deeds, Leases, Etc. Mineral and Mining Agreements
CO 874/65ACO 874Agreements, Assignments, Commissions, Conveyances, Deeds, Leases, Etc. Oil Agreements
CO 874/65BCO 874Agreements, assignments, commissions, conveyances, deeds, leases, etc. Oil agreements
CO 874/65CCO 874Agreements, assignments, commissions, conveyances, deeds, leases, etc. Oil agreements
CO 874/691CO 874Correspondence. Coal Concessions
CO 874/692CO 874Correspondence. Reports on the Sandekana & Silimpopon Collieries
CO 874/821CO 874Correspondence. Brunei Mineral Concessions
CO 874/864CO 874Correspondence. Nippon Industrial Co. Ltd.: Mineral Concessions
CO 874/996CO 874Correspondence. Report on the Segama Goldfield
CO 874/997CO 874Correspondence. Gold: Maps, plans, etc.
CO 874/998CO 874Correspondence. Gold: Dr. Seehorst’s Report & Diaries
CO 874/999CO 874Correspondence. Gold
CO 938/4/1CO 938Mining Ordnance, No 14 of 1949
CO 954/8/2CO 954War Damage and Claims Compensation: Shell Petroleum Company