AE & CI.

Path of Progress. The Development of Mining, Industry and Commerce in South Africa.

African Explosives and Chemical Industries Ltd. Jhb. 1961 Stiff red wraps. 59pp. illustrated b/w photos, drawings. Slight damp stain to front wrap & feps. A couple of notes in red ink o/w hence Good only. The writings were originally talks given on the SABC under the title name.

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Book number: 11937

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: aeci explosives gold uranium sugar paper matches timber tobacco tea coffee sodium thiosulphate hypo diamonds chlorine dynamite modderfontein african explosives and chemical industries Donald Campbell Blue Bird

Bell, W.H. Somerset.

The Mineral Laws of the Orange River Colony Including the Mining of Precious Metals Ordinance 1904, . . .

African Book Company. Grahamstown, Cape Colony, 1904. Library binding, 1/4 black leather over textured boards. 308pp 8vo. 0.8kg. Ex library (Government Mining Engineer Technical Library) with usual paraphernalia including number to spine. The title page has a library repair of cotton tape to hold it in place, else a sound clean copy with neat correctional annotations throughout. "... The Mining Of Precious Stones Ordinance 1904, The Mining Of Base Metals And Minerals Ordinance 1904, And The Mines Regulations With Note, And A Complete Index".

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Book number: 27769

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: south southern africa african mining legal law

Cartwright, A.P.

The Corner House. The Early History of Johannesburg.

Purnell & Sons, Cape Town 1965. Blue cloth boards, 293pp, illustrated 8vo. No inscription. Insect stains to fore edge hence a Good only copy in Good protected dustwrapper (chipped at head of spine, insect attrittion on edges). good shelf appearance The world's biggest mining town, Johannesburg, grew up around The Corner House. Julius Wernher, Alfred Beit, Hermann Eckstein, James B. Taylor, Lionel Phillips, Percy Fitzpatrick & Cecil Rhodes all played a part in founding South Africa's mining industry. Includes extracts from the letters they wrote to one another when they were young showing their personal triumphs and disasters.

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Book number: 27497

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: africa transvaal african south southern johannesburg gold mining corner house julius wernher alfred beit hermann ekstein james taylor lionel phillips percy fitzpatrick cecil rhodes

Cartwright, A.P.

Doctors of the Mines. A Commemorative Volume . . .

Purnell. Cape Town (1971). Gilt on red cloth boards. 169pp illustrated small 4to. No inscription. top edge spotted else a VG+ copy in G-VG dustwrapper (spine faded, wear at head & tail of spine, no major loss or tears). ISBN: 0360001106 ... Published In 1971 To Mark The 50th Anniversary Of The Founding Of The Mine22 Medical Officers' Association Of South Africa. With A History Of The Work Of The Mine Medical Officers.

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Book number: 26324

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: medical mining south southern africa african

Cartwright, A.P.

The Dynamite Company. The Story of African Explosives and Chemical Industries Limited.

Purnell & Sons, Johannesburg 1964 1st edition. Red cloth boards, 267pp, illustrated 8vo. Ownership inscription. VG in worn repaired dustwrapper (minor loss at head & tail of spine but no major loss or tears). Includes programme for the official opening of the AE & CI Modderfontein Dynamite Factory Museum on Thursday 28th July 1966 by the then Managing Director D.R. Scorer.

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Book number: 16394

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: africa african south southern modderfontein dynamite explosives

Cunningham, Anna. (Ed).

The Strubens and Gold.

AD Donker for Friends Of The Library. Publication Series No.3. University of The Witwatersrand. Johannesburg 1987. Royal blue cloth boards. 143pp illustrated 8vo. Notes, bibliography, index. Bookplate ffep else a Fine unread copy in VG protected dustwrapper (no chips, tears, or loss). ISBN: 0868521159 Extracts from letters and diaries kept by members of the Struben family between 1884 & 1895. The Strubens were among the few of the early prospectors who made good on the Witwatersrand gold fields and are considered the pioneering prospectors of the Central and West Rand gold fields. He was the first to show that the quartz-pebble conglomerates (banket) contained gold in payable concentrations.

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Book number: 16114

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: mining gold witwatersrand confidence reef africa african south southern banket fred struben

Heidgen, Heinz. (Illus. Gottfried Pils. Tr. Isabel & Florence NcHugh).

The Diamond Seeker. The Story of John Williamson.

Blackie. London 1959. Blue cloth boards. 139pp illustrated 8vo. No inscriptions, sello marks to ffep. light foxing here and there throughout. A Good sound copy, no dustwrapper. Translated from the German. The Mwadui mine in Tanzania was established in 1940 in the then Tanganyika by the Canadian geologist Dr John Williamson. He founded a model town for his workers, determined that the mine and the changes it would bring would not the destroy the african's way of life and family ties.

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Book number: 23589

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: mining diamonds tanzania africa african mwadui diamond mine

Hoste, Skipper. (Ed. N.S. Davies).

Gold Fever.

Pioneer Head. Salisbury 1977. 143pp illustrated softcover 8vo. Bookplate inside front wrap. VG+ condition. ISBN: 9780869180136 'Skipper' Hoste was Captain of 'B' Troop of the Pioneer Corps and in charge of the flag-raising ceremony at Fort Salisbury on September 13th 1890. This book was written before his death and subsequently edited by his grandson. It is a personal account of the occupation and settlement of Rhodesia, including the search for gold after the disbandment of the Pioneer Corps.

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Book number: 26400

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: rhodesia zimbabwe africa african south southern military pioneer column shashi river umzingwane major forbes colonel d'andrada mtassas kraal tyndale-biscoe

Jamieson, Bill.

Goldstrike! the Oppenheimer Empire in Crisis.

Hutchinson (1990). Navy cloth boards. 252pp illustrated 8vo. No inscription. VG+ in dustwrapper. ISBN: 9870091742607 How the biggest gold and diamond producer, Anglo-American, one of the top ten companies in the world, was crippled by association with South Africa. Tells the story of Minorco's offer for Consolidated Gold Fields, the sale of Gold Fields. Ventures to tell us where the empire goes now.

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Book number: 25496

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: mining south southern africa african consolidated gold fields minorco anglo american

Johnson, J.A. (Comp. for Lonrho).

Lonrho Mining Affairs in Zimbabwe. A Reproduction of the Recordings of the Chamber of Mines Journal from 1959 to 1984 Relating to Mines, Events, and People Associated with Lonrho.

Chamber of Mines / Lonrho. nd. post 1984. Gilt title on brown 'leather' boards. 220pp illustrated 4to. 1.0kg. No inscription, 4 square corners, a near Fine copy. A compendium of articles reprinted from the South African Chamber of Mines Journal which relate to Lonrho mining activities in then Rhodesia / Zimbabwe. No further information upon the publication of this item, but it does have a title page indicating that there was a run probably produced by the South African Chamber of Mines for Lonrho.

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Book number: 28014

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: mining rhodesia zimbabwe africa african south southern lonrho lonmin south african chamber of mines journal

Mathers, Edward P.

The Gold Fields Revisited Being Further Glimpses of the Gold Fields of South Africa.

The State Library, Pretoria. Reprints No.53. 1970. (Davis 1887). a facsimile of the 1887 edition including the original maps. Blue spine over grey cloth boards. 352pp illustrated foldout maps. Bookplate to front pastedown. ffep excised. a sound clean G+ copy only but otherwise with excellent contents, all maps present.

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Book number: 21584

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: south southern africa african gold mining delagoa bay kaap fields swaziland swazieland moodie's witwatersrand heidelberg fields

Rand Mines.

Visit to Crown Mines Limited. By the Johannesburg Historical Foundation.

16 February 1991. Spiral bound roneoed production, 48pp illustrated colour photos, maps, charts. A4. VG condition. Extensive notes on the history and workings of Crown Mines, including the plant used to reprocess the mine dumps for gold left by earlier inefficient processes.

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Book number: 16853

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: gold mining johannesburg transvaal africa african south southern

Roberts, Brian.

Kimberley: Turbulent City.

David Philip Cape Town, 1984. 2nd impression. Printed wraps, 413pp illustrated 8vo. No inscription. spine shows reading creases, G++ condition. ISBN: 0949968625 Contents: Part One: Discovery. The First Finds, The River Diggings, The Diamond Farms., Part Two: Shanty Town. 'A Gentleman's Diggings', Dust Drought And Flies, A Collection Of Characters, Governor Southey, The Black Flag rebellion, Civic Beginnings, Enter Doctor Jim, Company Mining., Part Three: Progress And A Threat, I.D.B 201, The Great Strike And Smallpox, The Railway Arrives, Amalgamation., Part Four: A New Era. The Fifth Mine, The Exhibition, Preludes To War, Besieged, 'Who Is To Take His Place?'. Mayor Oppenheimer. Capital Of The Northern Cape.

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Book number: 25368

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: africa african south southern kimberley diamond mining

Rosenthal, Eric.

On Change Through the Years. A History of Share Dealing in South Africa.

Flesch Financial Publications (1968). Blue cloth boards. 271pp illustrated oblong 4to. Ownership inscription. faded around spine. a G+ copy in the original plastic transparent dustwrapper (rubbed & slightly shrunken as often). contents excellent Did you know of the Pretoria Stock Exchange, or the Potchefstroom Sock Exchange? Not to mention two more exchanges in Barberton!. Tells the story from 1291 when the very first Joint Stock Company was founded in Genoa with the aim of besting the merchants of Venice on the basis that a sailing route around Southern Africa should be more profitable than the overloaded caravan trails then taking goods to Europe from Asia.

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Book number: 21959

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: mining finance banking south southern africa african securities stock exchange commercial bank pietermaritzburg klerksdorp potchefstroom kimberley durban barberton city & suburban mine greens building cape town john bardwell ebden bruce maver louis cohen

S.A Manganese Amcor Ltd (comp).

Kalahari Wealth. The Story of Manganese.

Purnell. Cape Town 1977. Brown cloth boards. 174pp illustrated 8vo. 0.8kg. Bookplate of Alan P. Bamford (son of deputy chairman F.H.Y. Bamford) to ffep. else a Fine copy in VG dustwrapper with secured protective wrap. ISBN: 9780360002739 Written as part of the Company's 50th anniversary commemoration. Primarily the story of the managanese ore resources of South Africa from discovery in the northern Cape in 1922 to the development of the associated mining industry to 1976.

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Book number: 21445

Catalogue: Mining

Keywords: mining africa african south southern manganese samancor bamford postmasburg kuruman