ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF COPPER MINING IN NAMAQUALAND 1846-1931

152 pages, 41 illustrations, 6 tables - 1 folding, orange cloth covers. A very good copy in the dust jacket.

'Here are recounted the initial prospecting expeditions from the Cape, the first purely speculative boom of any extent in South Africa - the copper mining mania of the 1850's, the troubled question of leases and the effect of the final settlement on the Black peoples who were the original inhabitants of the area, and the rise and development of most important mining centres in Namaqualand.' Editor's note.