Present Day Metallurgical Engineering on the Rand
by
John Yates
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
ISBN-10
110802663X
ISBN-13
9781108026635
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 19th, 2011
Print length
146 Pages
Weight
402 grams
Dimensions
20.80 x 29.80 x 1.10 cms
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History of engineering & technologyHistory of engineering and technology
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An examination of the development and technology of mining in the Transvaal region of South Africa during the late nineteenth-century gold rush, published in 1898. A year later tensions between British and Boer settlers over control and access to the gold mines escalated into the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902).
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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