century, non-gold mineral exports (at R27 billion) exceeded the value of gold exports, testimony to the resilience and growth of the non-gold sector. Gold, with exports valued at R25 billion, was by itself responsible for one-sixth of South ... South Africa's 'mining nation': The total population of these areas is 5.7 million, and on ...

 — The Diamond Mines of South Africa, G.F. Williams, Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. 15, pp. 392-417, (1887). The author describes in detail the main diamond …

Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in South Africa, c. 1890-1904. Introduction. The economy and society of southern Africa was greatly altered by two …

By the end of the 19th century, all the indigenous peoples of South Africa had lost their political and economic independence. Racist laws enabled the white-owned mining companies to control workers, keep wages very low, and gain immense profits from the diamonds and gold that black miners extracted from the earth. ...

 — Out of this grew the South African mining supply industry among which there are companies that are global mining technology leaders. Before the advent of its 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.

The discovery of gold in the late 19th century, specifically in the Witwatersrand Basin, sparked a massive influx of people from all over the world to South Africa. This led to the establishment of several mining …

 — Johannesburg - Gold Rush, Apartheid, Mining: Johannesburg's early history is the story of gold. In 1853 Pieter Jacob Marais, a South African prospector, recovered alluvial gold from the Jukskei River, north of what would become Johannesburg. The years that followed brought several modest strikes, but the Witwatersrand Main Reef eluded …

 — This lesson focuses on the changing balance of power in South Africa brought about by gold mining, and the foundations of racial segregation by exploring …

The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein, and was followed soon thereafter, in …

The discovery in i886 of the Witwatersrand gold fields in the South African Republic was arguably the most important of all of these famous nineteenth-century discoveries. The …

 — The discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa in the late 1800s transformed the country into a mining giant in Southern Africa. The South African mines needed a large number of mine workers ...

" Before the advent of its great mineral revolution in the latter half of the nineteenth century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. ... first, diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved to be the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world ...

in Late-Nineteenth-Century South Africa ABSTRACT The development of deep-level mining on the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in the mid-1880s and the concomitant increase ... gold mines, which, as Rob Turrell (1982:46) has argued, became "the most important site for the organisation and control of the labour force."

F F ast forward to the late 20th century, and South African diamonds are still sought after, with an estimated R16-billion worth of the stones sold locally and internationally per year.. Diamond miners were memorialised in the Diggers Fountain, which you can find in Kimberley. I nstalled at the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Gardens in 1959, Herman …

Find the perfect gold mine south africa 19th century stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensing. ... South Africa,The Pioneer reef gold-mining city of South Africa from the …

Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state.

It was the discovery and exploitation of, first, diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved to be the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, …

 — Lindsay Weiss explores the relationship between the 1886 'closed labour compounds' of the South African diamond industry, the concentration camps of the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer war, and the german …

3 written by the trade unionists. The most important of these were general histories published in 1926 and 1961, and the biography of trade union leader W.H. Andrews written in the 1940s.2 Most of ...

 — South Africa - Economy, Mining, Manufacturing: The economy of South Africa was revolutionized in the late 19th century when diamonds and gold were discovered there. Extensive investment from foreign capital followed. In the years since World War II, the country has established a well-developed manufacturing base, and it has experienced …

The 'pass laws' and migrant labour of apartheid in South Africa today have their origins in the policies designed to control the black workers in the diamond mines a century ago. ... Migrant labour has ensured a supply of cheap wage labour to the mining sector and secondary industry, and is a system which has been condemned throughout the world

 — Harington, J. S.; N. D. McGlashan and E. Z. Chelkowska. 'A Century of Migrant Labour in the Gold Mines of South Africa'. The Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 104, No. 2, March 2004, pp. 65–71. Google Scholar Katz, Elaine. The White Death: Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines 1886–1910

Two other gold rushes occurred earlier in the 19th century in the United States. With the heightened interest in Bitcoin and dramatic fluctuation in value this year, it is an opportune time to look back at the 19th-century quest to gain riches with American gold rushes. Instead of just digging into the history of the forty-niners (no, not the ...

 — Footnote 47 The concurrent development of gold mining and finance in Johannesburg turned South Africa into an epistemic testing ground for various economic …

( 1-41 ), "the late nineteenth century and first decades of the twenti eth century witnessed the apogee of the global mining industry" (1). Most of the famous gold rushes of the nineteenth century, of course, took place before this — California, Australia, and Canada's Fraser Valley were all mid-nineteenth century phenomena. But

 — By the mid-nineteenth century, South Africa was a complicated patchwork of British colonies, Boer settler republics and African states. ... 37 Although the suitability of the term 'revolution' to describe the combined socioeconomic effects of diamond and gold mining on South Africa as a whole remains a matter of historical and ...

 — The gold mines rapidly established a pattern of labor recruitment, remuneration, and accommodation that left its stamp on subsequent social and …

From Ancient Egypt to South Africa: Origins of Mining and Metallurgy in Precolonial Africa ... which were smelted to produce iron in the late 19th century. 42 In southern Africa, gold was mined using alluvial techniques on the ... Bisson suggests that some groups in the modern Democratic Republic of Congo may have roasted copper ores in the ...

 — South Africa - Colonial Economy, Resources, Trade: From 1770 to 1870 the region became more fully integrated into the world capitalist economy. ... Gold mining; The road to war; The South African War (1899–1902) Reconstruction, union, and segregation (1902–29) ... who were persuaded by missionaries in the early 19th century to change …

 — The South African War. 1. Discovery of Gold in the Witwatersrand: During the late 19th century, various gold strikes (discovery of gold) occurred in areas in …