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Author : Theodore Reunert
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Diamonds and Gold in South Africa written by Theodore Reunert and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Mitchell
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Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book Diamonds and Gold of South Africa written by Henry Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : Pocket Books
ISBN 13 : 9781416526377
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Diamonds, Gold and War written by Martin Meredith and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social sciences.
Author : Henry Mitchell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021648242
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Diamonds and Gold of South Africa written by Henry Mitchell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Theodore Reunert
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528354868
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Diamonds and Gold in South Africa (Classic Reprint) written by Theodore Reunert and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Theodore Reunert
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297938177
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Diamonds and Gold in South Africa written by Theodore Reunert and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Diamonds, Gold and War written by Martin Meredith and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Martin Meredith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458718980
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Diamonds, Gold, and War written by Martin Meredith and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9781230144313
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Diamonds and Gold in South Africa written by Theodore Reunert and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9781516843992
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (439 download)
Download or read book South African Riches written by Tom Stewart and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry Mitchell
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Diamonds and Gold of South Africa written by Henry Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melissa Free
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438481543
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Beyond Gold and Diamonds written by Melissa Free and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gardner Fred Williams
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Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Diamond Mines of South Africa written by Gardner Fred Williams and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South Africa. South African Airways
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Download or read book The Gold and Diamonds of South Africa written by South Africa. South African Airways and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Mitchell
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332255637
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Diamonds and Gold of South Africa written by Henry Mitchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diamonds and Gold of South Africa: Together With the Transvaal Gold Law, and Other Useful Information Banking eshhlimcnts, Assurance and I'rnst Companies, Othar Companies, Diamond Mining Companies, Gold and other Mining Companies. 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 : William Peter Taylor
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Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book African Treasures written by William Peter Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Mitchell
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Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Supplement to Diamonds and Gold of South Africa written by Henry Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
