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Mining in SA: Then, now, and into the future IRR ...
Diamonds begat gold, and gold mining begat coal mining. Coal had been found in Natal in the 1840s, but there was no means of transporting it and therefore no commercial exploitation. ... Teba, an agency set up by the mining industry at the beginning of the last century to recruit black labour for the mines, still has some 281 000 miners on its ...