Discovery of the Gold in 1884 | South African History Online
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 …
Precolonial Metallurgy and Mining across Africa
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 ...
Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in …
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 …
Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and …
— Footnote 47 The concurrent development of gold mining and finance in Johannesburg turned South Africa into an epistemic testing ground for various economic …
Gold mine south africa 19th century Stock …
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 …
Gold Rush SECRETS: 19th-Century South Africa …
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 …
Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902
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.
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Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth century, there was a general belief that southern Africa was almost destitutesimilar wealth that had drawn Europeans to the rest of the continent. ... In 2007, gold mining in South Africa employed over 240 000 people and accounted for R49 billion in foreign currency ...
in Late-Nineteenth-Century South Africa
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."
A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa
— 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 ...
Digging Deep : A History of Mining in South Africa, 1852 …
— 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. 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 …
A Most Modern Industry: The Migrant Labour System and …
— 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
Digging Deep: A history of mining in South Africa
— 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 future of gold in South Africa
— Adapting to Thrive: PwC's Andries Rossouw on the future of mining in South Africa. Some of the factors influencing the future of gold in SA. Rich Geological Reserves: South Africa, renowned for its abundant gold reserves, has been a major gold producer since the late 19th century, with the Witwatersrand Basin in Gauteng Province being a …
The Economic Effects of the Gold Discoveries upon South Africa…
Introductory survey, 553.— Development of the gold industry, 557.— Capital imports and their timing, 560.— The expansion of purchasing power, 567.— Price ...
Digging deep : a history of mining in South Africa, 1852-2002
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, …
A History of Gold Mining in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania
— The African continent is richly endowed with significant mineral, oil and gas resources, including large reserves of gold. As noted in the previous chapter, the continent is home to a large portion of the world's mineral wealth, including 42 per cent of the world's known gold reserves (Bush, 2008, p. 361).The continent's largest producer of gold, …
A history of mining in South Africa
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 …
Digging deep : a history of mining in South Africa, 1852-2002
" 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 ...
Mining Capital and Colonialism in Africa
( 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
The Development of the South African Gold-Mining …
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 …
South Africa
— 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 …
Topic 6 Contextual Overview
— 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 …
Introduction: Colonial South Africa, Mineral Revolutions and …
— 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 ...
History of mining in South Africa
— Diamond and platinum rushes. In the 1860s, two notable diamonds were unearthed; The 21-carat Eureka diamond and the 83-carat Star of South Africa, inspiring a diamond rush in the region aided by the more established coal industry.
Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and …
— 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 …
Gold in South Africa: Lessons from the Apartheid Era
— Gold in South Africa had been very much the country's life blood. Footnote 14 Given South Africa's abundant gold resources and low labour costs of imported workers Footnote 15 from all over Southern Africa, it could profitably mine to depths of 3 km and more and yet mines still remained profitable. It was the well-known combination of cheap …
Johannesburg
— 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 …
Minerals and Mining in South Africa | SpringerLink
— Mining in South Africa has underpinned the modern economic development of the country, while it is possible that the industry has now passed its peak and is a sunset industry as the gold and platinum mines go ever-deeper to exploit new resources. ... Throughout the rest of the twentieth century the gold mining industry continued …
Roots of Apartheid: South Africa's Mining Industry
Although some mining had taken place in what is now South Africa centuries before Europeans arrived, 1 the modern mining industry emerged as the major shaper of South Africa's economy and race relations in the latter half of the 19 th century. Important diamond deposits were discovered at Kimberley in 1869. Gold was
Colonial Mining: A Global Historical Context
Colonial Mining: A Global Historical Context One of the primary elements in colonial enterprise and a factor in the movement of colonial frontiers in Australia (and elsewhere including South Africa, Canada and the USA) was mining. In nineteenth century Australia, this was dramatically realised through a gold rush epoch.
Diamonds and Migrant Labour in South Africa, 1869-1910
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
The Gold Trade of Ancient & Medieval West Africa
— In addition, other kingdoms arose to compete with the Songhai for a share of the gold trade, especially to the west the Bornu Empire (1396-1893 CE) near Lake Chad, Hausaland (c. 1400 - c. 1800 CE) between the Niger River and Lake Chad, and, in the south, the Kingdom of Benin (13-19th century CE) in modern-day Nigeria.
The Origins of Forced Labor in the Witwatersrand
THE ORIGINS OF the forced labor system in the Witwatersrand, South Africa, can be traced back to the opening up of intensive gold mining in this region during the 1880s. For almost a century since then, forced labor in the mining industries of the Witwatersrand has characterized the South African economy.