The Society of the Mines Royal was one of two English mining monopoly companies incorporated by royal charter in 1568, the other being the Company of Mineral and Battery Works.
On 28 May 1568, Elizabeth I established the society by letters patent as a joint stock company with 24 shareholders:[1][2][3] The establishment of the society may have been the result of the Queen's success in the Case of Mines.
In the 1670s, the society associated itself with the Company of Mineral and Battery Works, but perhaps only informally.
Its monopoly disappeared under the Royal Mines Act 1688 (1 Will.
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