Download or read book Historic Overview of the Witwatersrand Goldfields written by J. R. F. Handley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovery and History of the Witwatersrand Gold Fields written by H. H. Webb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields written by Ethel Lillian Anderton Gray and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Mines of the Rand written by Frederick H. Hatch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gold Mines of the Rand: Being a Description of the Mining Industry of Witwatersrand, South Republic The township of Johannesburg was marked Off towards the end of 1886. The first sale Of building sites took place in December 1886, and realised prices ranging from a few shillings to z; 200. The first mill of any size was a 30-head Frazer and Chalmers battery, erected early in the year 1887 for the paarl-pretoria Gold Mining Company. Coal was discovered in December 1887 at Boksburg in the near neighbourhood of the diggings, and this discovery led to the Opening of several collieries (brakpan, Springs, Olifants River, There is no doubt that the prosperity of the Rand Gold Fields is in a measure due to the fortunate accessibility of abundant and, consequently, cheap fuel. 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.
Download or read book A History of the Discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields With Photographic Reproductions of the Official Records of the Discovery A Sequel to Payable Gold Etc written by Ethel L. GRAY (and (James) F.I.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Witwatersrand Gold 100 Years written by E. S. A. Antrobus and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Discovery of the Orange Free State Goldfields written by Gladys Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields written by Mrs. Ethel Lillian Anderton Gray and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Became of the Crow written by Robert Moriarty and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a mostly true story of the greatest gold discovery in world history. The greatest amount of gold ever produced in world history came from the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa. The deposit was discovered in 1886. Some 1.5 billion ounces of gold have been produced from the district, 40% of all the gold ever mined. In 1888 in the Pilbara Basin of Western Australia a young lad out chopping wood for his fire picked up a stone to throw at a crow who had designs on the young man's lunch. The Pilbara Basin is a similar age formation to that of the Witwatersrand Basin. Same rocks, same age, same potential. The stone turned out to be gold. The discovery began a gold rush in Western Australia that continues to this day. The insider happened to have stumbled into the midst of the discovery all the way from it being an interesting theory to exploration and drilling right to the first gold pour. To this day we don't know what became of the crow.
Download or read book The Gold Mines of Southern Africa written by Owen Letcher and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Payable Gold An Intimate Record of the History of the Discovery of the Payable Witwatersrand Goldfields and of Johannesburg in 1886 and 1887 Based on Researches Made in the State Archives Pretoria by Ethel L Gray and Containing the Oosthuizen Papers which Reveal the Story of the Discovery Translations of Photographic Reproductions of Documents by B de Coligny Marchand With Plates written by James GRAY (F.I.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovery and History of the Witwatersand Gold Fields written by H. H. Webb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Global History of Gold Rushes written by Benjamin Mountford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.
Download or read book Payable Gold written by Jas Gray and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Digging Deep written by Jade Davenport and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields written by Rudolf Krahmann and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
