| Title | Contributors | Publisher | Year | Medium |
| Welsh Slate Centre: handbook for the museum and informaton relating to the Welsh slate industry | Roberts, Dafydd | Welsh Slate Centre | 1989 | Book |
| Derbyshire's old lead mines and miners | Rieuwerts, J H | Moorland Publishing | 1972 | Book |
| Lathkill dale: its mines and miners | Rieuwerts, J H | Moorland Publishing | 1973 | Book |
| Iron for the eagles: the iron industry of Roman Britain | Ridge, Isabel; Sim, David | Tempus | 2002 | Book |
| Gazetteer of charcoal-fired blast furnaces in use since 1660 | Riden, Philip | Merton Priory Press | 1993 | Book |
| Mines of Dartmoor and the Tamar valley after 1913 | Richardson, P H G | Northern Mine Research Society | 1992 | Book |
| Gazeteer of the Welsh slate industry | Richards, Alun John | Gwasg Carreg Gwalch | 1991 | Book |
| Slate quarrying at Corris | Richards, Alun John | Gwasg Carreg Gwalch | 1994 | Book |
| Fragments of mine & mill in Wales | Richards, Alun John | Gwasg Carreg Gwalch | 2002 | Book |
| L'Aventure du fer en Bourgogne: de Bibracte au Creusot | Renaud, Guy | Editions Alain Sutton | 2007 | Book |
| Achatschleiferei und Wasserschleifen am Idarbach | Reidenbach, Karl-Theo | Raiffeisenbank Idar-Oberstein | 1986 | Book |
| Metalliferous mines of Wales | Rees, D Morgan | | 1972 | Book |
| Life and work of the northern lead miner | Raistrick, Arthur; Roberts, Arthur | Alan Sutton | 1990 | Book |
| Coalbrookdale 1709-1959 | Raistrick, Arthur | Coalbrookdale Company Limited | 1959 | Book |
| Lead industry of Wensleydale and Swaledale: Vol 2: the smelting mills | Raistrick, Arthur | Moorland Publishing | 1975 | Book |
| Hatchett Diary: A Tour Through the Counties of England and Scotland in 1796 Visiting Mines and Manufactories | Raistrick, Arthur | Bradford Barton | 1967 | Book |
| Peak millstones and Hallamshire grindstones - Vol XXXVI pp 165-173 | Radley, J A | Newcomen Society | 1964 | Article |
| Mines and mining in the Lake District: to which is added a synopsis of State Papers relating to the mines in Newlands, and smelting works in Keswick; copied from the Calendar of State Papers published by Robert Lemon Esq., F.S.A. | Postlethwaite, John | W. H. Moss & Sons Ltd | 1913 | Book |
| Churchill forge trust | Pople, John C | Churchill Forge Trust | | Book |
| Shepherd wheel, 1584-1984 | Peatman, Janet | Sheffield City Museums | 1984 | Book |
| British blast furnace statistics: 1790-1980 | Owen, John G; Riden, Philip | Merton Priory Press | 1995 | Book |
| Park Bridge ironworks: and the archaeology of the wrought iron industry in North West England, 1600 to 1900 | Nevell, Michael; Roberts, John | Tameside MBC | 2003 | Book |
| Development of iron and steel technology in China | Needham, Joseph | Newcomen Society | 1958 | Book |
| Maggs and Hindley: two families, two hundred years, an industrial heritage at Bourton, Dorset | Mullins, Robert | Robert Mullins | 2014 | Book |
| Eine Zeittafel zu den Mühlsteinbrüchen in Jonsdorf | Müller, Jörg | | | Book |
| Boyd family millwrights and engineers of Hull | Moseley, Janet | Janet Moseley | 2017 | Book |
| Cornwall's central mines: the northern district 1810-1895 | Morrison, T A | Alison Hodge | 1980 | Book |
| Iron industry of the Forest of Dean | Meredith, John | Tempus Publishing | 2006 | Book |
| Flint: the versatile stone | Mason, H J | Providence Press | 1978 | Book |
| Walker ironfoundry: York, c.1825-1923 | Malden, John | Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society | 1976 | Book |
| Berkshire foundry | Major, J Kenneth | | 1970 | Book |
| Finch Brothers' foundry Sticklepath, Okehampton, Devon | Major, J Kenneth | David & Charles | 1972 | Book |
| Finch Brothers' foundry: Sticklepath, Okehampton, Devon | Major, J Kenneth | David & Charles | 1969 | Book |
| Needle making and the forge mill | Luty, John | Forge Mill Museum Trust | | Book |
| Schleifkotten, Mühlen und Hämmer an den Solinger Bächen | Lunkenheimer, Ludwig | Rheinland Verlag | 1990 | Book |
| Llechi / Slate | Lewis, Michael J T | Gwynedd Archives Service | 1976 | Book |
| Forge d'Aube | Lecherbonnier, Yannick | Inventaire General SPADEM | 2001 | Book |
| Red earth: the iron mines of Furness | Kelly, Dave | William David Kelly | 1998 | Book |
| Victorian slate mining: a social and economic study | Jones, Ivor Wynne | Landmark | 2003 | Book |
| Hafodlas slate quarry: bettws-y-coed | Jones, Griff R | Griff R. Jones, Gwylfa, Cae Clyd, Blaenau Ffesitiog, Gwynedd. | 1998 | Book |
| Scythemill: Belbroughton [DVD] | Jones, David H | David H Jones | 1995 | Recording |
| Top forge, Wortley: an ancient monument in the care of the Sheffield trades historical society | Johnson, M P; Worrall, P | South Yorkshire Trades Historical Trust Ltd | | Book |
| Top forge - Wortley: official guide | Johnson, M P; Morley, C; Worrall, P | South Yorkshire Trades Historical Trust Ltd | | Book |
| History of lead mining in the Pennines | Jennings, Bernard; Raistrick, Arthur | Davis Books, George Kelsall Publishing | 1989 | Book |
| Compleat collier: or, the whole art of sinking, getting, and working, coal-mines &c. as is now used in the northern parts especially about Sunderland and Newcastle | J, C | Gullick Dobson Limited | 1990 | Book |
| Slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog | Isherwood, Graham G | AB Publishing | 1988 | Book |
| Candles to caplamps: the story of Gloddfa Ganol | Isherwood, Graham G | | 1977 | Book |
| Cwmorthin slate quarry | Isherwood, Graham G | Adit publications | 1995 | Book |
| Krater und Schlackenkegel | Ippach, Peter; Mangartz, Fritz; Schaaff, Holger | Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz | 2002 | Book |
| Hub ironworks: a hundred years of iron casting in Chipping Norton | Hurrell, Harold | Chipping Norton Museum | 2001 | Book |
