An examination of the development and technology of mining in the Transvaal region of South Africa during the late nineteenth-century gold rush, published in 1898. A year later tensions between British and Boer settlers over control and access to the gold mines escalated into the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
An examination of gold mining companies in South Africa, published in 1898 on the eve of the Anglo-Boer war.