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Digging Deep - A History of Mining in South Africa (Paperback, Revised & Updated Edition)
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Digging Deep - A History of Mining in South Africa (Paperback, Revised & Updated Edition)
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List price R450
Loot Price R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save R120 (27%)
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South Africa’s mining journey began with the discovery of ‘mountains of
copper’ in the drylands of Namaqualand, laying the foundation of an
industry that would forever shape a nation’s destiny. Nowhere else in
the world has a mineral revolution proved so influential in weaving the
political, economic and social fabric of a society.
Digging Deep explores South Africa’s great mineral revolution – the
lucky strikes and the struggles of prospecting in the late 1800s, the
rushes to boom-and-bust towns in the Eastern Transvaal Goldfield, the
dubious beginnings of the Witwatersrand, and the stories of the
visionary men like Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Sir
Ernest Oppenheimer, Sammy Marks and Hans Merensky who pioneered and
shaped the industry on which modern South Africa was built.
This epic retelling is the only single-volume account of how South
Africa’s gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and
minerals – the richest treasure trove ever discovered in one country –
transformed a colonial backwater into the greatest industrialised power
on the African continent.
In this second edition, Jade Davenport adds two new chapters that
closely examine the era since the advent of democracy in which time the
mining industry has gone through a profound and distressing
transformation.
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