MINERS IN SOUTH AFRICA
A CHEERFUL PROSPECT , CAPE TOWN, October 5. Abundant optimism regarding tbe immense undeveloped resources of South Africa marked the presidential address of Dr Hans Pirow, Government mining engineer, before the Chemical, Metallurgical, and Mining Society of Johannesburg. There was, he said, little reason to doubt that another £1,000,000 worth of gold would be won from tbe present gold deposits on the Rand and the outlying _ di»tvipta He believed that in addition to the known deposits further payable auriferous ore bodies would yet be disco\ered. As regards diamonds, the existing resources were sufficient to ma’ritaiii’the present output for very many years to come. Dr Lategan, official coal grader, bad calculated that the existing coal tonnage. if all were Convertible into od, would be to tlm value of approximate!'’ £500.000,000. Even rnd«r existing circumstances there would be a considerable expansion of the coal industry. Apart from gold and diamonds, South Africa had hardly touched its known ore deposits, and "now that the Union appeared to be on the eve of scientific prospecting, it was time to consider stops for future development. ■
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Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 9
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