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Author : Theodore Reunert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : NYPL:33433089970754
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Diamond industry and trade
ISBN : 1416526374
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Author : Henry Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009596362
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458718761
SOUTHERN AFRICA was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region. It culminated in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and left the Boer republics devastated. In this gripping history of the turbulent years leading up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa in 1910, Martin Meredith portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa. Diamonds, Gold, and War is a tale of high adventure, high fi nance, and high politics that also shows the massive impact of white expansion on indigenous African societies. And it explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold, with repercussions lasting nearly a century.
Author : Henry Mitchell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020287276
This fascinating look into the diamond and gold mines of South Africa provides readers with a glimpse into a world of unimaginable wealth. Henry Mitchell's vivid descriptions of the people who mined these valuable resources during the early 20th century are an especially riveting component of this book. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074249700
The prize was great -- not just land, but the riches it held, in the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South Africa was, until 1910, a vast and untamed land where great fortunes could be made (and lost); where great battles were fought (and lost); and where great men had their reputations forged, or dashed, or sometimes both. Martin Meredith's follow-up to his magisterial THE STATE OF AFRICA is an equally epic new history of the making of South Africa. Covering the extraordinarily eventful four decades leading up to the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, it covers some of the most iconic tales of imperial history. The Zulus at Rorke's Drift; the Jameson Raid; the diamond and gold rushes at Kimberley and Witwatersrand; the Boer wars; the titanic struggle between the arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes and his Boer rival, Paul Kruger -- DIAMONDS, GOLD AND WAR brings all of these and more together in a stunningly coherent and compelling narrative. History, somehow, just isn't as colourful any more.
Author : Theodore Reunert
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1528354869
Excerpt from Diamonds and Gold in South Africa Some of the following pages have already appeared in print. The section on the diamond fields, originally written for the Official Handbook of the Cape of Good Hope, ' was issued in pamphlet form at the time of the Kimberley Exhibition of 1892, on which occasion also the paper on the gold fields was delivered as a lecture. It is now published for the first time, and the whole work has been carefully revised and brought up to date, besides being considerably enlarged by the addition of the latest statistics bearing on the two industries, and by a number of articles on points of special interest, which will be found in the Appendix. I take this opportunity of acknow ledging my indebtedness, not only to the gentlemen whose names are affixed to these articles, but also to the managers and secretaries of Companies who have freely placed much valuable information at my disposal; to many old colonists for useful comments and criticism; and, especially, to Mr. John Noble, of Capetown, for a large amount of generous assistance and encouragement. For the rest, I have drawn up a list of the principal authors consulted, to which must be added a whole library of blue-books, and companies' reports, and files of colonial newspapers, too numerous to specify. Though the materials are at hand for doing justice to the subject, yet, in spite of the number of works that have been written on South Africa, it cannot be said that the diamond and gold fields, which form the backbone of the country, have received that attention at the hands of either scientific or imaginative writers which they deserve. To the geologist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Melissa Free
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438481548
Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region's mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial-born Olive Schreiner, southern Africa's first literary celebrity, as well as by H. Rider Haggard, Gertrude Page, and John Buchan, its most influential authorial informants, British authors who spent significant time in the region and wrote about it as insiders. Tracing the ways in which generic innovation enabled these writers to negotiate cultural and political concerns through a uniquely British South African lens, Melissa Free argues that British South African literature constitutes a distinct field, one that overlaps with but also exists apart from both a national South African literary tradition and a tradition of South African literature in English. The various genres that British South African novelists introduced—the New Woman novel, the female colonial romance, the Rhodesian settler romance, and the modern spy thriller—anticipated metropolitan literary developments while consolidating Britain's sense of its own dominion in a time of increasing opposition.
Author : Theodore Reunert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : OCLC:1062109326
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458718983
SOUTHERN AFRICA was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region. It culminated in the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and left the Boer republics devastated. In this gripping history of the turbulent years leading up to the founding of the modern state of South Africa in 1910, Martin Meredith portrays the great wealth and raw power, the deceit, corruption, and racism that lay behind Britain's empire-building in southern Africa. Diamonds, Gold, and War is a tale of high adventure, high fi nance, and high politics that also shows the massive impact of white expansion on indigenous African societies. And it explains the rise of the virulent Afrikaner nationalism that eventually took hold, with repercussions lasting nearly a century.
Author : Theodore Reunert
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230144315
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... the United States at the last Census, in 1890: --Appendix I. f 'Keport on Mineral Industries in the United States at the Eleventh Census, 1890, ' p. 34, by K. P. Kothwcll. At the present time the Transvaal stands fourth on the list of the gold-producing countries of the world, and it needs no prophetic vision to see that it must soon rank first. In 1890, the gold production of the whole of Australia and New Zealand was only 6,000,000, and of the whole of the United States of America, 6,500,000, and the production of both these countries is now about stationary;" so that an increase of 45 per cent. on last year's output will place the Transvaal at the head of the list. That consummation cannot long be delayed. It is difficult to exaggerate, where the facts are so extraordinary. The proved mineral wealth of South Africa is already one of the wonders of the world, but what is not so generally realised is the vast extent of the still unexplored and undeveloped regions of the country. In making the above forecast, reliance has been placed mainly, if not exclusively, on the progressive output of Witwatersrand, which is already producing over 5,000,000 worth of gold per annum from a narrow strip of country not more than ten or twelve square miles in area, constituting the first row of claims only on the outcrop of the Main Reef series. Until quite recently, it was a matter of pure conjecture to what distance below the outcrop the conglomerate reefs would continue, and, if continuing, to what extent they would remain auriferous. Doubt on both these points is now set at rest by the evidence afforded by the Great Borehole, f which has been sunk at a spot nearly 4,100 feet south of the outcrop, and which in June, 1893, actually...
Author : Tom Stewart
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516843991
The world has South Africa to thank for most of the diamonds in existence today. The story of diamonds in South Africa goes back to 1867 when a 15-year-old kid named Erasmus Jacobs stumbled upon a transparent rock on his father's farm near Hopetown on the banks of the Orange River. So happened that Erasmus and his sisters were fond of picking up pretty pebbles on the river's banks to play with. On this day, the boy came across a small white pebble which he carried home to later show his father. The father in turn showed it to a neighboring farmer who doubled up as a collector of fine stones. His name was Schalk van Niekerk. He found it intriguing and offered to buy it from the Jacobs' but they instead gave it to him for free never thinking it was anything of value. Commercial diamond mines in South Africa are scattered across three provinces: the Northern Cape (capital Kimberley), Limpopo (capital Polokwane aka Pietersburg) and Gauteng provinces (capital Jo-burg). Northern Cape The Kaapvaal Craton in central South Africa was endowed with some of the richest diamond-bearing dykes (known as kimberlite dykes) this world has ever seen. Having started out as a boom town, Kimberly became the center of the historic diamond industry in South Africa
Author : Jade Davenport
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781868424047
Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, which transformed South Africa into the supreme industrialised power on the African continent. Here for the first time is the complete history of South Africa's phenomenal mineral revolution spanning a period of more than 150 years, from its earliest commercial beginnings to the present day, incorporating seven of the major commodities that have been exploited. Digging Deep describes the establishment and unparalleled growth of mining, tracing the history of the industry from its humble beginnings where copper was first mined on a commercial basis in Namaqualand in the Cape Colony in the early 1850s, to the discovery and exploitation of the country's other major mineral commodities. This is also the story of how mining gave rise to modern South Africa and how it compelled the country to develop and progress the way in which it did. It also incorporates the stories of the visionary men - Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, Sammy Marks and Hans Merensky - who pioneered and shaped the development of the industry on which modern South Africa was built.
Author : Henry Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Diamond mines and mining
ISBN : NYPL:33433066417522
Author : Tieguhong Julius Chupezi,Verina Ingram,Jolien Schure
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786028693141