Teronoh

Teronoh (or Tronoh, Ternoh) (Chinese: 端洛) is a small tin-mining town in Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia.

Teronoh
For the state constituency represented in the Perak State Legislative Assembly, see Tronoh (state constituency).

The tin-mining industry boom during the early 20th century saw Teronoh, a town believed to be old, grow from a small village into a major town. The mines in the area included Tronoh South Ltd., Tronoh Extended Ltd., Chung Thye Phin's Phin Tak Mine (also known as the Phin Tak Kongsi) and Chia Tek's Lee Yeoh Mine, all of which were acquired by Foo Choo Choon's Tronoh Mines Ltd. between 1912 and 1921.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

A railway line linking the town and Ipoh was completed in 1909 and used to transport tin ore. The tracks were dismantled by the Japanese during World War II and were never rebuilt. Shortly after the war ended the tin industry deteriorated, and with it, the importance of the town.[7][8]

The main road that used to cut through town linking Ipoh with the seaside town of Lumut has been replaced by a new highway bypassing the town. Today Teronoh is a sleepy little town although that may change giving that two universities (Universiti Teknologi Petronas and Universiti Teknologi MARA) are in the vicinity.

References
  1. Ingham, Frank Tinley and Bradford, Ernest Frederick. The Geological and Mineral Resources of the Kinta Valley, Perak, Malaya. Kuala Lumpur: Government Press, 1960. Page 181.
  2. The centre of the mining field containing the mine of the Tronoh Mines Company, Ltd. was the village of Tronoh.
  3. Chung Thye Phin was a rich businessman (towkay) and last Chinese Kapitan of Perak and Malaya. It was here in Tronoh that Thye Phin's famous deep-shaft mine could be found.
  4. Penzer, Norman Mosley. The Tin Resources of the British Empire. London: W. Rider and Son Limited, 1921. Print. Page 90.
  5. In 1972, A dulang-washer found a coin, believed to be about 140 years old, in a river near Tronoh, 10 miles from here (Penzer, N. M. The Tin Resources of the British Empire. London: W. Rider and Son Limited, 1921. Print. Page 99).
  6. Described as 'one of the largest and oldest dredging companies,' the Tronoh Mines Ltd had five dredges by 1929 (Hillman, John. The International Tin Cartel. London: Routledge, 2010. Print. Page 267).
  7. Khoo, Salma Nasution., and Abdur-Razzaq Lubis. Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia's Modern Development. Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia: Perak Academy, 2005. Print. Page 185.
  8. Khoo and Lubis cite oral tradition in dating the founding of Tronoh to around 1883 and support this with an entry by de Morgan who, in 1884, described a place called 'Kliang Tronong,' which the authors believe to be Tronoh.


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