Titlebook: Gold Paved the Way; The Story of the Gol P. A. Cartwright Book 1967 Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1967 fields.gold.group.story.economic geology

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The Companyt sounds more like Rhodes’s invention than Rudd’s for Rhodes always devoted deep thought to the names of his ventures. He liked to find words that suggested not merely sound business but also a wide and high purpose. And this was such a name.

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A ‘Swell’ Engineersolidated Gold Fields of South Africa was formed everything went well. Rudd’s investments on the Rand soared. The reserve shares were issued and used to buy gold-mining shares and these, too, soon showed a handsome profit.

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War Shuts Down the Minestics, not only in the mental anguish they endured, but also in hard cash as well. It took two years before the final settlements were made. Beit’s bill from the British South Africa Company included such items as:

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Lord Harris in the Chair his patriotism, his philanthropy, his vision. At the annual meeting of Consolidated Gold Fields in London that year Lord Harris described him ‘as a great Englishman, who, whatever his faults, was English to the core and had England’s greatness at heart’.

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Sub Nigel’s Riches the Rand ‘Faith, Hope and Charity’. These were titles that appealed to Johannesburg’s sense of humour and the stockbroker’s joke travelled from one end of the Witwatersrand to the other. It has lasted to our day — as have the three mines, the grand ‘old-stagers’ of gold mining.

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The Lost Reefdisastrous period of stagnation and depression which set in in practically all markets in 1929 and of which the end is not in sight’, The following year, when he had to announce that there would be no dividend, he said:

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The Triumphtraordinarily flat. The market in gold shares was almost moribund. No one had much faith in a prospecting programme in an area that had been pronounced dead by eminent geologists. As for an instrument that was alleged to be able to detect gold-bearing formations at a depth of 3,000 feet — well, that