1986 Randfontein Estates- The First Hundred Years by Anthony Hocking.

1986 Randfontein Estates- The First Hundred Years by Anthony Hocking.  

Hardcover Book with inscription by B.R. Fleetwood, General Manager 16/09/1993 to the REGM Team. Contains a loose copy of a Randfontein Estates Debenture Certificate and map of the mine by JCI Survey Department.

Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km (25 mi) west of Johannesburg. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company. The town was established in 1890 to serve the new mine and was administered by Krugersdorp until it became a municipality in 1929. Apart from having the largest stamp mill in the world, Randfontein, like many of the other outlying areas of Johannesburg, is essentially a rural collection of farms and small holdings in a particularly beautiful part of Gauteng.  In 1889 the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company (REGM) was registered.

To many, the attraction of the past lies less in great events and famous men than in the fascination of ways of life that have disappeared. Decades ago, Randfontein Estates' workings rang with the sound of hammers on drills and the surface shook from the pounding of stamp batteries. Miners worked by candlelight or in the beam of carbide lampsForeword by George Nisbet.

Illustrations by Heather Blair.

Publisher: Hollards Bethulie.  Published: December 1986. Edition: First Edition. Pages: 280.  ISBN No: 0-620-09377-3.   

Book description as per my photos.

Condition: Hard cover book in very good used condition, inside pages are clean and not torn.

Binding is good, a very clean good second-hand copy.

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