Government Mining Engineer / Department of Mines Annual Reports¶


Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Government Mining Engineer / Department of Mines
Coverage	1902-1965
Works using it	5

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	3
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
Historiographical approaches	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Edgecombe (1987)	Annual reports of the Department of Mines	1911-1939	Cited for the size of the Natal coal mine labour force (not exceeding 20,000).
Houghton and Dagut (1973)	Government Mining Engineer's estimate of ore to be milled (Table XXX)	1940-1965 projection	Projects gold mining shrinking to one-seventh of its size within 25 years.
Lumby (1974)	Annual Reports of the Government Mining Engineer and Jeppe's Gold Mining in South Africa (1948)	1910-1939	Source for tonnage milled, grade, working costs and profit per ton in Table 8-4.
Petterson (1951)	Union of South Africa, Annual Report of the Department of Mines for 1946 (Pretoria, 1947), p. 22	1946	Gives the 1946 average gold yield per ton of ore (4.02 pennyweight) and the roughly 301,000 Bantu laborers housed in mine compounds.
Pogue (2006)	Transvaal and Union Government Mine Engineer Annual Reports (drill use, rock excavated by drill)	1902-1933	Source for drill counts (Fig 8.1) and share of hauled rock drilled by rock drill (Fig 8.2), the proxy for transformation of stoping; also 1907 strike employment Table 8.5.