The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1963 - Great Britain |
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... gold and , to a less extent , diamond mines in the Transvaal . The nature of the gold deposits may be mentioned as another geographical fact that helped to give the industry its revolutionary character . There is very little alluvial gold ...
... gold and , to a less extent , diamond mines in the Transvaal . The nature of the gold deposits may be mentioned as another geographical fact that helped to give the industry its revolutionary character . There is very little alluvial gold ...
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... gold - bearing reefs on the high land between Pretoria and the Vaal River , the conglomerate series of the Witwaters- rand . With Major Lys they extracted the first gold therefrom . A great gold - rush began . Immigrants from Kimberley ...
... gold - bearing reefs on the high land between Pretoria and the Vaal River , the conglomerate series of the Witwaters- rand . With Major Lys they extracted the first gold therefrom . A great gold - rush began . Immigrants from Kimberley ...
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... gold from the " tailings " ( sand or slime ) by dis- solving it in cyanide solutions was not developed sufficiently for general use until the ' nineties . In the early years , shafts were sunk from the outcrop following the incline of ...
... gold from the " tailings " ( sand or slime ) by dis- solving it in cyanide solutions was not developed sufficiently for general use until the ' nineties . In the early years , shafts were sunk from the outcrop following the incline of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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