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Excerpt from The Gold Mines of the Rand: Being a Description of the Mining Industry of Witwatersrand, South Republic The township of Johannesburg was marked Off towards the end of 1886. The first sale Of building sites took place in December 1886, and realised prices ranging from a few shillings to z; 200. The first mill of any size was a 30-head Frazer and Chalmers battery, erected early in the year 1887 for the paarl-pretoria Gold Mining Company. Coal was discovered in December 1887 at Boksburg in the near neighbourhood of the diggings, and this discovery led to the Opening of several collieries (brakpan, Springs, Olifants River, There is no doubt that the prosperity of the Rand Gold Fields is in a measure due to the fortunate accessibility of abundant and, consequently, cheap fuel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This 1895 work covers geological, economic and legal aspects of South African gold mining shortly before the Second Boer War.

A 1972 book on the determination of wages amongst miners in South Africa.