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=====Mining in World History===== | =====Mining in World History===== | ||
[https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4yp-x3TzDnEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=history+of+mining&ots=eza9X5oyhW&sig=dZ4l88Ow0wrs54SPbREs5WqB99Y&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=history%20of% by Martin Lynch | [https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4yp-x3TzDnEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA7&dq=history+of+mining&ots=eza9X5oyhW&sig=dZ4l88Ow0wrs54SPbREs5WqB99Y&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=history%20of% by Martin Lynch | ||
=====Digging Deep===== | |||
[https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=TsbnDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT2&dq=history+of+mining&ots=PDKSpypRQt&sig=pc8d5Xy6M6RxEPKGaEAXnrOJk58&redir_esc=y by Jade Davenport] | |||
Before the advent of the great mineral revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. Yet lying just beneath the dusty surface of the land lay the richest treasure trove of gold, diamonds, platinum, coal and a host of other metals and minerals that has ever been discovered in one country. It was the discovery and exploitation of first diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, which transformed South Africa into the supreme industrialised power on the African continent. | |||
