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Columnist: Digging Deep

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

 

 
Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

Eureka – South Africa has diamonds! Restricted

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The year 1866 marked a phenomenal turning point in the history of South Africa for it was in that year the first diamond, the famous 21¼ carat Eureka Diamond, was discovered in the vicinity of the Orange River.
By: Jade Davenport
9th April 2010
 
 
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The Port Nolloth railway – SA's first large-scale industrial infrastructure Restricted

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One of the greatest challenges that has and continues to influence the profitable exploitation of South Africa’s mineral resources is the distance of those natural commodities from a market.
By: Jade Davenport
19th March 2010
 
 
Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

Nepotism – an age-old phenomenon in South African politics Restricted

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As media headlines have, again, been dominated by allegations of nepotism and corruption by a public figure, it is opportune to point out that the unethical relationship between politics and business interests is not a phenomenon unique to...
By: Jade Davenport
5th March 2010
 
 
Digging Deep - Jade Davenport

Cape Town’s copper mania and the quest for immediate, extraordinary wealth Restricted

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South Africa’s historiography has given much eminence to diamonds and gold and the way in which these precious commodities influenced the South African economy over the last 140 years.
By: Jade Davenport
19th February 2010
 
 
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SA’s first mining legislation Restricted

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The 1850s marked a significant milestone for South Africa’s mining industry as it was in this decade that commercial interest in mining was firmly established, and that the country’s first mining legislation was introduced.
By: Jade Davenport
5th February 2010
 
 
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A brief history of SA’s first mining company Restricted

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It is a little-known fact that South Africa’s very first commercial mining company was, in fact, established in 1846.
By: Jade Davenport
22nd January 2010
 
 
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Van der Stel’s journey to the copper mountains of Namaqualand Restricted

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The initial attempts to discover valuable metals and minerals in the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-seventeenth century proved largely unsuccessful.
By: Jade Davenport
4th December 2009
 
 
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Van Riebeeck and SA’s first documented search for minerals Restricted

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A historical examination of the early mining history of South Africa may seem to have no practical value today, but when one reads documents from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one is impressed with the early settlers’ zeal for...
By: Jade Davenport
20th November 2009
 
 
 
 
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