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 the Orange Free State

Resources

• [https://archive.org/details/transvaalitsmine00praa Praagh, L. V. The Transvaal and its mines : the encyclopedic history of the Transvaal

(1906) Online version.]

• 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

Personal Stories

• Mannie Jacobson

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