THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA (1936)

This magnificent study contains 5 folding MAPS, 2 folding photographic panoramic views, numerous illustrations, tables, diagrams and statistic informations. Rarely selling on auctions and hard to find even in National and University Libraries - and the only complete copy selling on internet!

With a double-page table "Production of Gold in the Union of South Africa classified under mining districts together with the World's Production and the percentage produced in South Africa, from earliest available records" (including the complete statistics for years 1493-1883 and 1884-1935). This comprehensive work includes the chapters describing the use, importance and occurrences of Diamonds, Gold, Platinum, Silver, Lithium, Uranium, Radium, Titanium, Tin, Tantalum, Columbium, Wolfram, Vanadium, etc. in South Africa.

Contains 5 folding maps and 2 folding photographic panoramic views:

- Folding colour Physical Relief Map of South Africa;

- Folding colour Geology Map of the Union of South Africa;

- Folding Map of Precious Minerals (Gold, Diamond Mines, Alluvial Diamonds, Platinum) of the Union of South Africa;

- Folding photographic panoramic view of the Witwatersrand Gold Field: Central and West Rand;

- Folding photographic panoramic view of the Witwatersrand Gold Field: East and Far East Rand;

 - Folding Map of Ores of the Base Minerals;

 - Folding Map of Base Non-Metallic Minerals.

CONTENTS:

# SECTION I - GENERAL:

1) Topography and Geology of the Union;

2) Review of the Mineral Industry;

3) Government Aid and Control.

# SECTION II - PRECIOUS METALS and MINERALS:

1) DIAMONDS;

2) PRECIOUS STONES, GEMSTONES and ORNAMENTAL STONES OTHER THAN DIAMONDS;

3) GOLD:

   - Historical;

   - Gold in the Witwatersrand System;

   - Heidelberg;

   - Klerksdorp;

   - Vredefort;

   - Other Gold Occurrences (Barberton; Central Transvaal; Eersteling and Mount Mare; Haenertsburg and Woodbush; Letaba; Mafeking Division; Malmani; Murchison Range and Leydsdorp; Natal and Zululand; North West Transvaal; Pilgrims Rest, Sabie, and Lydenburg; Schwaizer Reneke District; Waaikraal, Alluvial Gold; Production of Gold in the Union);

4) PLATINUM METALS

5) SILVER

# SECTION III - BASE METALLIC MINERALS

# SECTION IV - BASE NON-METALLIC MINERALS

# SECTION V - ECONOMIC MINERALS of SOUTH WEST AFRICA

# SECTION VI - STATISTICAL TABLES (Diamond, Jade, Emerald, Verdite, Platinum Metals, Osmiridium, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, Bismuth, Cobalt, Copper, Chrome Ore, Iron Ore, Lead, Manganese Ore, Mercury; etc.)

"The Mineral Resources of the Union of South Africa. With a summary of the mineral resources of South West Africa. Compiled in the office of the Geological Survey, etc. Based on the work by P. A. Wagner and L. Reinecke. With plates and maps."; Soft covers; Text in English; Collation complete - Title page, XIV, 545 pages, with 5 folding maps and 2 folding photographic panoramic views; Overall the condition is very good. Soft covers with usual wears for the age, extremities little worn/bend, ex-libris label pasted with a transparent tape to the spine bottom. Binding keeps well together, but it's little fragile (more from the soft covers paper type, than from the use). Glossy pages/text block is bright and clear, no marks or foxing throughout, only a few dog eared corners to a few front and rear pages. All maps are whole, bright and clean, overall in impeccable condition. A sound copy.

Dr Leopold Reinecke (1884-1935) was geologist. His work included the investigation of deposits of gold and chrysotile in Natal, blue asbestos at Kuruman, silver, lead, fluorspar, vanadium and nitric salts in South West Africa (now Namibia), and asbestos, tin and platinum in the Transvaal. From October 1926 he was associated with the New Consolidated Gold Fields, Ltd (which later developed into Goldfields of South Africa, Ltd) and spent most of his time on geological investigations of the western Witwatersrand. His most valuable work involved determining the location of the main reef conglomerate in the main reef of the far West Rand by detecting the strongly magnetic West Rand shale, concealed beneath younger cover rocks, using magnetic measurements. His fundamental studies of the Witwatersrand stratigraphy in the West Rand area eventually led to the establishment of eleven gold mines. Though most of his work could not be published, Reinecke produced some important papers, among them "The location of payable ore-bodies in the gold-bearing reefs of the Witwatersrand" (1927) and "Origin of the Witwatersrand System" (1930), both in the Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa. His findings reported in the first of these papers, based on his investigations on the Central and East Rand, enabled him to formulate a system to identify pay-streaks, the practical application of which later proved a valuable guide to mining engineers. This paper was one of the most important publications on the depositional environment of the Witwatersrand gold deposits up to that time. His work also clearly confirmed that the gold in the Witwatersrand conglomerates was a typical alluvial deposit. In collaboration with W. G. A. Steyn he also studied "Ore bodies of the Pilgrim's Rest Goldfield" (Ibid, 1929) and with P. A. Wagner published "The Mineral deposits of the Union of South Africa" (1930). His last paper dealt with "Magnetic prospecting on the Witwatersrand" (14th Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 1935). Reinecke served as president of the Geological Society of South Africa in 1929, the year in which the fifteenth session of the International Geological Congress was held in South Africa. His presidential address dealt with "The relations of geology to industry". He served on the council of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, was a member of the Board of the Fuel Research Institute, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, regional vice-president for Africa of the Society of Economic Geologists and a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the National Geographic Society, and the Wild Life Protection Society of South Africa. (https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=2319)

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