REPORT ON THE MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NATAL

(Other than coal)

Published by order of the Natal Government

First edition: xii, 155 pages, frontispiece folding colour map, 7 plates - maps and diagrams, numerous black and white photographs and diagrams in the text, foxing throughout, starting to wear a the hinges, green cloth boards – scuffed and worn with insect scarring, corners bumped, a good copy.

The death occurred on Thursday, September 22 1932, of Dr. Frederick Henry Hatch, O.B.E., well-known in mining and geological circles. Dr. Hatch who was 68 at the time of his death, was born in London, and received his education at University College, where he won a gold medal and Tufnell scholarship. He followed this up by study at Bonn University from 1883 to 1886, in geology, chemistry and mining engineering, taking the degree of Ph.D. Subsequently he joined H. M. Geological Survey of England and Wales, on the staff of which he was employed until 1892, when he went out to South Africa, as a mining engineer, acting as consultant to the South Africa Trust and Finance Company, and the Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa. In 1898-99, he was engaged in Canada and the United States.

Dr. Hatch was responsible for numerous publications, two being in conjunction with co-authors, viz., The Gold Mines of the Rand (with J. A. Chalmers), and The Geology of South Africa (with G. S. Corstorphine). His reports on the Kolar Goldfield and on the Mines and MIneral Resources of Natal were also published.
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