After Diamonds — Gold

Four years after the first diamonds were discovered in South Africa wandering prospectors found an alluvial gold-field in the South African Republic, the independent state which Afrikanders had established beyond the Vaal. This was not the first discovery of gold in the Transvaal. Quartz reefs had been worked as far back as 1853 and there had been reports of other finds. But the rush which began in 1874 to a wild and inaccessible region that lay between Lydenburg and the Portuguese border was the real thing. Here alluvial claims on the Blyde River produced gold to the value of more than £ 1,000,000 and those who were first in the field made money. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Alluvium · Archaeology · Geography · Gold rush · Portuguese · Reef · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology · South African History and Culture