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

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Thomas Simmons, of Boston (c.1602 - 1682)
Disambiguation Tingley, Raymon Meyers. Some Ancestral Lines, p. 371-2 fraudulently created records to state that Elizabeth was daughter of Thomas Simmons (Symonds) of Plymouth who in turn married Eli...
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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 ...
Barney Barnato (1851 - 1897)
Died at sea at 31.8 N; 17.13 W BARNEY BARNATO (21 February 1851 – 14 June 1897) Barnett Isaacs grew up in Whitechapel, the very poor East End of London in an area that was predominantly a Jewis...
Harry Frederick 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

[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