Hi everybody, I have a book called "Fifty Golden Years of the Rand: 1886-1936) by Jacobsen and published in 1936. It has a pretty good map in the back showing the gold mines as at 1936. I do not know if the book is still copyright but I would think that just scanning the map for personal use and not for commercial distribution would qualify as "fair use". If anyone would like a copy of the map please let me know and I will send it off-list. The file is just over 5Mb in size. BTW, there is a book called "The Gold Mines of Southern Africa: The History, Technology, and Statistics of the Gold Industry" by Letcher, also published in 1936 (I do not have a copy) which may be useful for those with a connection to the mining industry. Cheers, Paddy On 19 February 2014 11:42, Nolene Lossau <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a History Book about Johannesburg called "Like it Was - The Star 100 > Years in Johannesburg" published by Argus in 1987 ISBN 0 620 09389 7 which > is a mine (excuse the pun) of information about the gold mines of > Johannesburg. The Star was one of the first newspapers published in > Johannesburg - the first edition went out on Monday 117 Oct 1887. Gold had > been discovered by George HARRION in February 1886. In the 6 July 1889 > edition The Star published a list of gold yields from various mines. These > mines were listed as follows: > > Aurora > Chimes > Crown > Croesus > City & Suburban > Durban Roodepoort > Henry Nourse > Jubilee > Langlaagte > May Consolidated > Mint > New Primrose > New Grahamstown > Royal > Simmer and Jack > Steyn Estate > Wemmer > Worcester > Wolhuter > >

Dear Pat, I certainly would like a copy if you could! Colin Mohr [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Brown" <[email protected]> To: "Genealogy - South Africa" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Early Witwatersrand gold mines. > Hi everybody, > I have a book called "Fifty Golden Years of the Rand: 1886-1936) by > Jacobsen and published in 1936. It has a pretty good map in the back > showing the gold mines as at 1936. I do not know if the book is still > copyright but I would think that just scanning the map for personal use > and > not for commercial distribution would qualify as "fair use". If anyone > would like a copy of the map please let me know and I will send it > off-list. The file is just over 5Mb in size. > BTW, there is a book called "The Gold Mines of Southern Africa: The > History, Technology, and Statistics of the Gold Industry" by Letcher, also > published in 1936 (I do not have a copy) which may be useful for those > with > a connection to the mining industry. > > Cheers, > > Paddy > > > On 19 February 2014 11:42, Nolene Lossau <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a History Book about Johannesburg called "Like it Was - The Star >> 100 >> Years in Johannesburg" published by Argus in 1987 ISBN 0 620 09389 7 >> which >> is a mine (excuse the pun) of information about the gold mines of >> Johannesburg. The Star was one of the first newspapers published in >> Johannesburg - the first edition went out on Monday 117 Oct 1887. Gold >> had >> been discovered by George HARRION in February 1886. In the 6 July 1889 >> edition The Star published a list of gold yields from various mines. >> These >> mines were listed as follows: >> >> Aurora >> Chimes >> Crown >> Croesus >> City & Suburban >> Durban Roodepoort >> Henry Nourse >> Jubilee >> Langlaagte >> May Consolidated >> Mint >> New Primrose >> New Grahamstown >> Royal >> Simmer and Jack >> Steyn Estate >> Wemmer >> Worcester >> Wolhuter >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AF[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Paddy! Please can I have a map? I will see what I can do about getting the other books. Many thanks Bev -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pat Brown Sent: 19 February 2014 12:51 PM To: Genealogy - South Africa Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Early Witwatersrand gold mines. Hi everybody, I have a book called "Fifty Golden Years of the Rand: 1886-1936) by Jacobsen and published in 1936. It has a pretty good map in the back showing the gold mines as at 1936. I do not know if the book is still copyright but I would think that just scanning the map for personal use and not for commercial distribution would qualify as "fair use". If anyone would like a copy of the map please let me know and I will send it off-list. The file is just over 5Mb in size. BTW, there is a book called "The Gold Mines of Southern Africa: The History, Technology, and Statistics of the Gold Industry" by Letcher, also published in 1936 (I do not have a copy) which may be useful for those with a connection to the mining industry. Cheers, Paddy On 19 February 2014 11:42, Nolene Lossau <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a History Book about Johannesburg called "Like it Was - The > Star 100 Years in Johannesburg" published by Argus in 1987 ISBN 0 620 > 09389 7 which is a mine (excuse the pun) of information about the gold > mines of Johannesburg. The Star was one of the first newspapers > published in Johannesburg - the first edition went out on Monday 117 > Oct 1887. Gold had been discovered by George HARRION in February 1886. > In the 6 July 1889 edition The Star published a list of gold yields > from various mines. These mines were listed as follows: > > Aurora > Chimes > Crown > Croesus > City & Suburban > Durban Roodepoort > Henry Nourse > Jubilee > Langlaagte > May Consolidated > Mint > New Primrose > New Grahamstown > Royal > Simmer and Jack > Steyn Estate > Wemmer > Worcester > Wolhuter > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message