Chamber of Mines Annual Reports¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	company records or reports
Producer	Chamber of Mines of South Africa
Coverage	1886-1993
Works using it	5

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	3
Historiographical approaches	2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1

Works using this source¶

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Breckenridge (1995)	Transvaal Chamber of Mines Annual Report, 1950	1950	Cited with Union Statistics for mining revenue trends after 1932 and the 1950 devaluation.
Crush and James (1995b)	Chamber of Mines reviews, newsletters and annual reports (1988-1993) and Gold Fields Mineral Services Gold 1991/1993	1981-1993	Supplies the series on employment, profitability, gold price, NUM membership and world production used for the profit-squeeze argument.
Dinkelman and Mariotti (2014)	Chamber of Mines of South Africa Annual Report 1973	1973	Used to argue that the 1974 recall was unexpected because no concerns about recruiting were noted.
Pogue (2006)	COMSA Annual Reports: Witwatersrand gold output, price and world share 1886-1933	1886-1933	Supplies gold output series (Tables 7.1, 9.1) and South Africa's share of world output (Figures 7.1, 9.1) to show growth and international significance.
Pogue (2006)	COMSA Annual Reports: employment, racial composition, state revenue from mining, annual statistics	1903-1933	Builds Figures 8.3, 9.2, 9.3, 9.5, 9.6 on employment, labour origins, state revenue share, output and excavation efficiency.
Pogue (2006)	Chamber of Mines (COMSA) Annual Reports 1892-1899 (extraction method percentages, cyanide vs chlorination)	1892-1899	Compiled by the author into Table 6.4 to show cyanidation displacing chlorination on non-amalgamated gold.
Taylor (1978)	Annual Reports of the Chamber of Mines	1912-1938	Source (via Schapera) of the annual average of 3,267 men recruited from the NRC area 1912-1938.