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'Diamonds & Dust; Gold & Ganja' - Mining South Africa

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Henry Forbes Julian (1861 - 1912)
Memorials of Henry Forbes Julian by his wife Hester Pengelly Name: Mr Henry Forbes Julian Born: Thursday 9th May 1861 Age: 50 years Last Residence: in Torquay Devon England Occupation: Me...
Barney Barnato (1851 - 1897)
Barney Barnato (21 February 1851 – 14 June 1897), born Barnet Isaacs , was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from...
Cecil John Rhodes (1853 - 1902)
Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) was father of the De Beers Consolidated Mining Company and the British South Africa Company, as well as a major architect of British policy in southern Africa, founder of ...
Harry Oppenheimer (1908 - 2000)
Harry Oppenheimer (1908–2000) Born 28 October 1908 and died at age 91 on 19 August 2000, Harry Oppenheimer was a leading South African businessman and one of the richest men in the world. His father ...
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, SV/PROG (1880 - 1957)
describes re Ernest: "His first wife, May Pollack, with whom he had two sons, died in 1934, and his son Frank died after a swimming accident in Madeira in 1935. He underwent a spiritual crisi...

South Africa is mining country (it's also 'farming' country, but that's a different project :-)

Mining Greats

Barney Barnato
Cecil John Rhodes
George Harrison - prospector (dates unknown) who discovered the gold bearing Main Reef on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, which lead to the gold rush on the Witwatersrand and the creation of Johannesburg.
Harry Oppenheimer (1908-2000). Businessman - De Beers, Anglo American
Hans Merensky 1871-1952, geologist who discovered many of South Africa's mineral deposits
Mannie Jacobson 1904 -1980, gold prospector, most notable being Aandenk in Orange Free State

Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, 'The Rand Lords' The Men Who mAde SA, 1993
Roberts, Brian, 'Kimberley, Turbulent City,' 1976
Jackson, Stanley, 'The Great Barnato.' 1970
van Onselen, Charles, 'Masked Raiders', Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 2010
online book "Diamond: Story of Man's Greatest Greed'
David Pallister, Sarah Stewart and Ian Lepper: 'South Africa Inc. The Oppenheimer Empire' *Epstein, Edward Jay, The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion, Simon & Schuster, 1982.
Gregory, Theodore, Ernest Oppenheimer and the Economic Development of Southern Africa, Oxford University Press, 1962.
Hocking, Anthony, Oppenheimer and Son, McGraw-Hill, 1973.
The Historical Monuments of South Africa
The Gold Miners of South Africa
The story of Barbeton