History of mining in South Africa: The key events throughout time
History of mining in South Africa. From the world’s largest hand-dug mine to strike action with fatal violence on both sides, South Africa’s mining industry has been one of the
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South Africa's Iron Ore Industry - Michael Porter
ports, Richards Bay and Saldanha are highly sophisticated and account for 90% of the total ore. transport (Development Bank of South Africa, 2012). South Africa’s iron ore
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Mining industry of South Africa - Wikipedia
Mining in South Africa was once the main driving force behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. Large-scale and profitable mining started with the discovery of a diamond on the banks of the Orange River in 1867 by Erasmus Jacobs and the subsequent discovery of the Kimberley pipes a few years later. Gold rushes to Pilgrim's Rest and Barberton were
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South Africa - Iron Age, Bantu, Khoisan Britannica
Contents. Home Geography Travel Countries of the World. The Iron Age. Because the first farmers had knowledge of ironworking, their archaeological sites are characterized
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Precolonial Metallurgy and Mining across Africa Oxford Research ...
As a cultural behavior, mining has on the African continent extends to around 120,000 years ago, when communities living on the southern Cape Coast in South Africa
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AND INTERPRETATION* - JSTOR
Iron smelting technology was introduced to southern Africa by Bantu-speaking. agriculturists early in the first millennium ad.2 The routes of introduction are not clear,
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Minerals and Migrants: How the Mining Industry has Shaped
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
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2000 years of indigenous mining and metallurgy in southern Africa
The earliest known evidence of iron production in southern Africa are slags from 2nd to 6th centuries AD sites in south ern Mo~ambique (Morais, 1984; Sinclair et al., 1993). No
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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,
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