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	Davenport is a freelance journalist and mining historian - jade@engineeringnews.co.za

Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

Gold in the Land Down Under

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At the very height of the Californian Gold Rush it is estimated that of the 300,000 fortune hunters that flocked to the west coast of North America about one percent came from the British colony of New South Wales. Among such adventurers was a man...

By: Jade Davenport

18th January 2013

Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

‘Gold! Gold! Gold on the American river’

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On a fine spring morning in 1848 Samuel Brannan, an American settler, entrepreneur and journalist, paraded through the streets of the tiny village of San Francisco brandishing a small bottle of gold dust shouting, “Gold! Gold! Gold in the...

By: Jade Davenport

23rd November 2012

Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

Gold fever infects sporting enthusiasts

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Gold panning – a traditional form of individualistic mining that extracts gold from placer deposits using a pan – is an activity largely associated with the bygone era of the famous Californian, Australian, Canadian and South African gold...

By: Jade Davenport

2nd November 2012

Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

The Brazilian gold rush

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Perhaps the most popular and romantic aspect of the history of gold is the narrative of the various gold rushes that lured hundreds of thousands of people, literally, to the four corners of the globe during the eighteenth and, more notably, the...

By: Jade Davenport

12th October 2012

Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

The legend of El Dorado

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Stories and legends of the quest for and discovery of fabulous golden treasure dominate the popular history and mythology of gold. No legend is more popular than that of the search for El Dorado, the ‘Lost City of Gold’. It is a legend that...

By: Jade Davenport

28th September 2012

Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

Spanish conquistadors and the looting of Mexican, Peruvian gold treasures

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The epic voyage undertaken by Christopher Columbus in 1492-93, which led to the discovery of the Americas, sparked an unprecedented wave of exploration in what was described as the ‘New World’.

By: Jade Davenport

7th September 2012

Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

Gold, silver in Medieval Europe

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The decline of the Roman Empire during the fourth century CE largely resulted in widespread political and economic chaos in western Europe. Such chaotic conditions endured for the better part of four centuries, which is a period that is, not...

By: Jade Davenport

24th August 2012

Column Fifty-Two

Gold mining during the Classical Period

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Perhaps the most constant theme that has characterised the progression of human society from the dawn of civilization, more than seven thousand years ago, to the present day is man’s complete obsession with gold.

By: Jade Davenport

3rd August 2012

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