The discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand hills and the Transvaal
region of South Africa sparked a rush in the late 1880s.
Competition between the British and Boer settlers for access and
control of this valuable commodity was one of the underlying causes
of the second Anglo-Boer war (1899 1902) in which the British
eventually won control of the territory. In this work, published in
1898, the mining engineer and Fellow of the Geological Society of
London John Yates outlines the state of the booming industry on the
eve of war. He discusses the work of key companies and includes
technical specifications and illustrations of the equipment used in
the new gold mines, such as the shafts, mills and cyanide works. An
appendix by his fellow engineer Hennen Jennings addresses the
question of government assistance in subsidising the huge start-up
costs of these mining projects.
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