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Aware of demand, mining companies are tapping Brazil and Paraguay for their diamond deposits, reactivating an industry that was overshadowed by the dominance of South Africa in the early 20th century.
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Alongside these internal fractures, the South African mining industry was under additional pressure by overseas developments in the latter half of the 20th century. The …
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Diamonds are a 's best friend, the saying goes. And almost a century ago, the diamond miner's best friend was the Bullmastiff. Not just any diamond miner, mind you, but the biggest name of them all — De Beers, the South African conglomerate that once controlled more than 80 percent of the world's sparkling stones. Peerless …
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This book is about mine workers and monopoly capitalism in Kimberley, South Africa from 1867-1895.
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Ahead of this landmark auction, here is a look at ten iconic 20th Century South African artists who every art lover should know. JH Pierneef. Lot 557 – Bushveld Game Reserve (1950), estimate R2-R3 million. Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (1886-1957) was born in Pretoria to Dutch-Boer parents in 1886. During the Anglo-Boer War the family …
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South Africa is known for its beautiful landscape, wildlife, sunny weather and also for its diamond, gold and platinum reserves. However, it wasn't until the late 1800s when the discovery of the first diamond in South Africa made diamonds more attainable to the middle class, changing the worldwide diamond industry forever.. During 1867, a young …
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'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most terrible and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa's history. It was an event that in many ways shaped the history of 20th Century South Africa. The end of the war marked the end of the long process of British conquest of South African societies, both Black and White'.
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The fictitious Courtney family is revealing the bigger-than-life-diamond mining exploits in Africa in various books by South African adventurer writer Wilbur Smith (including movies focused on them). Two films by James Bond, Diamonds Are Eternal and Suffer Another Day, revolve around the unfortunate usage of diamonds to build mass destruction ...
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The discovery of diamonds and then gold, and the emergence of powerful Capitalist blocs in mining and agriculture united the Brits and the Boers in their need to secure cheap labour. ... and the history of 20th century South Africa is the history of the conflict between whites and the various black groups that eventually culminated in the …
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Summary. In 1871, prospectors exploring a remote stretch of land in South Africa stumbled upon a rich deposit of diamonds. Fifteen years later, gold was …
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A collection of articles from the 1800s and 1900s about the discovery, mining and geology of diamonds in South Africa. Learn about the first diamond found, the kimberlite host rock, the diamond king Cecil …
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Ernest OppenheimerSouth African business leader Ernest Oppenheimer (1880-1957) established what became the modern diamond industry almost single-handedly in the early decades of the 20th century. By gaining control of the large South African mines from which the costly gemstones came, Oppenheimer created an airtight, lucrative cartel that …
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the Congo) was dominant until the middle of the 20th century. Not until the 1960s did production from non-African sources (first the Soviet Union, then Australia, and now Canada) become impor- ... South Africa.After mining of diamonds began in 1869, South African production rose rapidly to 1 Mct in 1872 and thereafter to 5 Mct in 1907, in 1909 ...
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Kolmanskop is a Namibian diamond-mining town that boomed in the early-20th century. Within a half-century, the town's diamond supply had depleted and residents had moved farther down the coast to follow new diamond discovery. ... When not writing for her travel blog The Sharonicles, she contributes to a number of South …
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African Diamond Mines. In the late 19th century, the discovery of diamond deposits in South Africa revolutionized the diamond industry. The opening of the Kimberley Mine in 1871 triggered a diamond rush, attracting thousands of prospectors to the region. By the end of the century, South Africa was the world's leading diamond …
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Learn about the discovery and mining of diamonds in South Africa, from the first alluvial finds in 1867 to the famous Cullinan and Niarchos diamonds. Visit the museum in Cape …
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The African continent is richly endowed with significant mineral, oil and gas resources, including large reserves of gold. As noted in the previous chapter, the continent is home to a large portion of the world's mineral wealth, including 42 per cent of the world's known gold reserves (Bush, 2008, p. 361).The continent's largest producer of gold, …
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into the 20th century: o the changing balance of power in South Africa brought about by gold mining, and the ... BRITAIN, DIAMOND MINING AND INCREASING LABOUR CONTROL AND LAND EXPANSION INTRODUCTION: • The discovery of diamonds in 1869 and of gold in 1886 changed the South African economy • Up to this point, …
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Diamond production has increased enormously in the 20th century. India's maximum production, perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 carats annually in the 16th century, is very small compared to the current ...
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The Anglo-Boer War between 1899 and 1902, the most expensive colonial war in British history, devastated the South African interior. After the peace, many rural whites joined the large migration of black workers to the area around Johannesburg in search of employment, beginning a process of urbanization that would continue into the …
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Learn about the discovery and exploration of diamonds in South Africa from 1867 to 1893 through articles and reports from the 1800s and 1900s. Find out how diamonds were found, identified, and mined in …
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Almost a century and a half ago, European miners found diamonds and gold in Southern Africa. What we now call South Africa was then a British colonial territory and a place for plots, resentments ...
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The development of the mining industry after the discovery of diamonds and gold rapidly transformed the South African economy. The mining economy attracted labourers from both inside and outside South Africa. ... What caused revolts for independence from colonialism in the early 20th century in Africa? 2. Many of these revolts had similar ...
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F F ast forward to the late 20th century, and South African diamonds are still sought after, with an estimated R16-billion worth of the stones sold locally and internationally per year. Diamond miners were memorialised in the Diggers Fountain, which you can find in Kimberley. I nstalled at the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Gardens in 1959, Herman …
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South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world's largest goldfields …
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Almost 150 ago, European miners found diamonds and gold in Southern Africa. It quickly became a place of resentment and battles between Africans, Brits and …
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Mining in South Africa has been 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 and exploitation of the Kimberley …
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For further details see Richardson, Chinese mine labour, 8–46; Jeeves, Mine labour in South Africa's mining economy, 21–30, 51–52; Packard, White plague, 17–19, 28–47; Elaine Katz, Silicosis on the South African gold mines, in F. Wilson and G. Westcott (eds) Hunger, work and health (Johannesburg 1980) 187–244
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Premier Diamond Mine, South Africa Wikimedia ... The structure of the business remained the same for much of the 20th century: A De Beers subsidiary would buy the diamonds. De Beers would ...
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(De Beers forged a reputation as the dominant force in 19th & 20th century diamond mining) View London DE diamonds here By 1888 De Beers strategy of agglomeration under Rhodes had lead to the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, which effectively held a complete monopoly over all South African diamond …
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