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Growth of the Early Gold Mining Industry. On 14 September 1886, the first large mining company on the Reef, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company, was formed with a …
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The gold mines rapidly established a pattern of labor recruitment, remuneration, and accommodation that left its stamp on subsequent social and economic relations in the country. White immigrant miners, because of their …
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The Witwatersrand is in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Gauteng Province is the roughly the southern portion of what was previously the Transvaal, formerly an independent state settled by the Boers after the Great Trek. J. H. Davis, an …
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Mining's contribution to total economic production climbed in the 1970s to peak at 21% in 1980 1. Contributing to the upward surge in 1980 was a relatively high gold price. In other words, for every R100 that the South African …
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New gold mines continue to open in South Africa, adding to the notion that gold mining in South Africa continues to be a feasible and productive industry. Gold is the leading mineral earner of foreign income in South Africa …
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From the vantage point of the closure of South Africa's gold mines, she reconsiders their history, beginning in the present and descending into the past. Anchored in …
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A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa's interior. Welkom was once the center of the world's richest goldfields. There ...
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Chamber of Mines (now Minerals Council South Africa) founded 1890 South Africa began to slow down in the 1880s, as the new deposits being found tended to be pyritic ore and gold could not be extracted from this compound with any …
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Historical Significance: South Africa has long been a pivotal player in the global gold market, with the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late 19th century fundamentally altering its socio-economic landscape.
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Imagine a huge area in South Africa, 56 kilometres long. It goes up to 1,800 metres high 1.This area was key to a big gold find in history. The Witwatersrand plateau, 7 to 10 …
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The late 19th century South African Gold Rush drew many to the Witwatersrand Basin. Prospectors, miners, and their families settled in mining camps. These places had …
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T T he gold rush saw prospectors from around the world trek up to the Witwatersrand, precipitating the Anglo-Boer or South African War of 1899-1902, in which the British fought the Boers over control of the then Transvaal and its …
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The Discovery of Gold: The Witwatersrand Gold Rush Gold has played a defining role in South Africa's history, shaping its economy and global influence. The discovery of gold …
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Here we discuss the research and the implications of our results for the geologic history of South Africa. ... Africa's largest gold mines. Thr ee. men, who must weigh well over 100.
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Google Scholar Cf. Richardson, P., and VanHelten, J. J., 'Labour in the South African gold mining industry, 1886–1914', in Marks, S. and Rathbone, R. (eds.), Industrialisation and Social …
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The exploration of South African gold mines reveals a rich history interwoven with economic vibrancy and societal shifts. Notably, the mines not only serve as a source of precious metals …
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The 1886 discovery of significant gold reef deposits on the range of hills known as the Witwatersrand, Footnote 11 would change the course of southern African history. As …
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As opposed to scholars like de Cecco (1974) and Narsey (2016) who have also applied a post-colonial analysis but focus primarily on India, I will focus on South Africa. Gold and South …
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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 …
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Almost half of the 187,200 tons of gold ever mined in the history of human civilization has come from gold mines in Africa, and most of that from South Africa. In the past 130 years, South Africa's gold industry has …
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Contributing to the upward surge in 1980 was a relatively high gold price. In other words, for every R100 that the South African economy produced that year, R21 was due to …
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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, which …
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The Political Ecology of Extraction (ENST 256), Fall 2023
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Gold has been a defining force in South Africa's history, from the Witwatersrand Gold Rush to its modern role as a key investment asset. While the mining landscape has evolved, gold remains a cornerstone of the economy, …
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A change so unexpected and a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest gold mines of all history, ancient and modern. From 1886 …
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South Africa - Diamonds, Gold, Imperialism: South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when …
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Gold mining is more than a mere industry in South Africa; it is a tapestry woven with threads of history, culture, and economic undertones. Dating back over a century, this sector has not only …
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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 …
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Mining's Oppressive History: The South African Story (Part 1: 1860-1930) 06 Jun 2019. ... In the Transvaal, gold mining followed the same pattern. As this labour- and capital …
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Johannesburg's large gold deposits that ran for miles underground ensured the little mining town mushroomed into a leviathan. Before the discovery, there were about 600 white farmers in the Witwatersrand region, which was considered …
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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 …
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Peaking at a production output of 1000 tonnes of gold mined in 1970 [1], South Africa was one of the top gold producers globally but has since battled to remain in the top 10 goldproducing ...
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In the 20 th century, the large gold mines on the West Wits line were established, and towns like Carletonville and Klerksdorp became important and busy centres around the world-famous …
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