South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world's largest goldfields …
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During the gold-mining revolution, patterns of land and labour were established and continued into the 20th century. Focus: Changing balance of power in South Africa brought about by gold mining, and the foundations of racial segregation. Content and topics: "¢ Britain, diamond mining and increasing labour control and land …Web
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Southern Africa - European and African interaction in the 19th century: By the time the Cape changed hands during the Napoleonic Wars, humanitarians were vigorously campaigning against slavery, and in 1807 they succeeded in persuading Britain to abolish the trade; British antislavery ships soon patrolled the western coast of Africa. Ivory …Web
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From 1867 to 1871, exploratory digging along the Vaal, Harts and Orange rivers in South Africa prompted a large-scale diamond rush that saw a massive influx of miners and speculators pour into the ...Web
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The Witwatersrand's Geologic History. Gold was discovered on the Langlaagte farm in 1886, setting the stage for the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1902. The Langlaagte gold mine is seen here in 1893. Credit: British Library. In the Gauteng Province of modern-day South Africa, a 56-kilometer-long ridge reaches heights up to 1,700 meters.Web
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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. Rob Turrell | Published in History Today Volume 36 Issue 5 May 1986. Racial discrimination in South Africa is based on the migrant labour system. Unlike other …Web
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This chapter outlines the basic features of gold mining in South Africa. The structure, administration and economic significance of the mines, the key technical challenges posed by deep deposits and low-grade ore, the size and composition of the workforce, the chronic shortages of labour and oscillating migration are covered.Web
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In conclusion, the gold and diamond mining boom in South Africa during the 19th century was a pivotal moment in the country's history. The discovery of these precious …Web
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Minerals: Diamonds, gold, coal, iron ore, chrome, copper, emerald, fluorspar, ilmenite, lead, manganese, nickel, phosphate, silica, tin, vanadium, uranium, zinc and zircon. Independence: 31 May 1910 Area: 1,221,037 km2 Mining fact: The Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa is the largest gold resource in the world.This is also where the world's …Web
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From 1870 until shortly before the start of the First World War the diamond mines of South Africa accounted for almost of global diamond production. ... This situation started to change shortly after the turn of the 19th century when the Premier Mine at Cullinan, east of Pretoria, came into production. ... in the Gold Coast (now Ghana), in ...Web
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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 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, …Web
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Southern Africa - Southern Africa, 1899–1945: If the Nama-Herero wars were among the most savage in colonial Africa, an equally bitter, costly colonial war was fought by Britain against the Afrikaner South African Republic. The reasons for the South African (or Anglo-Boer) War (1899–1902) remain controversial: some historians portray it in personal …Web
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During the gold-mining revolution, patterns of land and labour were established and continued into the 20th century. Focus: Changing balance of power in …Web
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IntroductionThe South African economy has a long history of mining exploration. The first mining operations were recorded in 1852. Literature has expressed the need to continue exploring the implications of internal and cross-border in-migration on the labor market of destination areas. This paper investigates migration patterns in South …Web
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Relative number of mine workers before, during and after the influenza pandemic of October 1918 at the De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd diamond mines in Kimberley, South Africa in the major mines (Wesselton, Bultfontein, Dutoitspan) and selected labourer (workshop, convict) groups. Total number of miners involved was 11 445.Web
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The Development of the South African Gold-Mining Industry, I895-1918 By PETER RICHARDSON and JEAN-JACQUES VAN HELTEN T he second half of the nineteenth century was the great era of gold discoveries. Between i849 and i898 a regular series of strikes was made in north America, Australasia, southern Africa, and Asiatic Russia. The …Web
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This chapter considers gold at its most recent historical epi-centre—i.e. South Africa during the apartheid era. For over 130 years gold in Africa has been synonymous with the Witwatersrand which has produced 40% of the gold that was ever mined. 1 From 1887 until 2018 1.7 billion ounces of gold were extracted from the South …Web
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question. 1:) during the 19th century in South Africa gold was discovered in Johannesburg and diamonds in kimberly. soon European migrants began mining Gold and Diamonds in South Africa. South Africa was producing world 27% gold from 1886 to 1914 ( the year of the first world war ) 2:) Cecil was the first European to create a gold …Web
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Diamond Mining in South Africa, J.B. Smith, Strand Magazine, Vol. 11, pp. 346-354 (1896). A historical description of the mining operations in the diamond fields during the first 25 years. Cecil Rhodes and his colleagues begin efforts to consolidate the separate individual mines under the control of one company in 1887.Web
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Gold and diamond mining have been the foundation of South Africa's economy for centuries, and for many years, the country was the world's largest producer of gold and diamonds. During the 19th and 20th centuries, a number of companies were established to control the gold and diamond resources, including the De Beers …Web
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1 Introduction The mineral wealth of South Africa has been exploited by Homo sapiens for at least 40,000 years and has provided many and varied commodities …Web
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A history of mining in South Africa. M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted what historians call the Mineral Revolution, which made few European opportunists wealthy beyond measure, and saw …Web
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The study population comprised all workers employed at eight mines in South Africa; the study mines were identified by commodity, and included those in the platinum (n = 3), gold (n = 2), coal …Web
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During the gold rush years ofthe late 19th and early 20th centuries, colonial gold prospectors in southern Africa ... 15th century onwards of indigenous gold mining in south? ern Africa (Axelson 1960, 1969, 1973; Pikirayi 1993). In ... Zimbabwe indicate mining into the 19th century (Swan 1994:123-124). This is not surprising, because …Web
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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 wasWeb
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For over nine hundred years the African inhabitants of South Central Africa engaged in the production and trading of gold. The attention of archaeologists and …Web
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mines, emerged as the Union of South Africa. Gold mining, as the economic historians have long pointed out, powered South Africa's industrial revolution and domi nated its economy for a century. Whether in terms of export earnings, employment of labor, stimulation of a wide range of economic activity from coal mining to agricultural production,Web
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The history of gold mining and gold trade in southern Africa goes back nearly 1000 years. Given the number of early gold mines and the records of lively trade on the east coast, the scale of ...Web
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