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Other goldfields are at Lydenburg and Barberton in the 

 east of the Transvaal, but these are of less importance than 

 those of the Rand. 



2. Rhodesia. The chief mines are in Sou them Rhodesia in the 

 district of Gwanda, about 100 miles south-east of Buluwayo. The 

 country here is well wooded, and not far a way is the Tuli coalfield. 



GOLD MINING, JOHANNESBURG. QUARTZ BEING RUN INTO 

 TRUCKS FOR CRUSHER. 



3. Swaziland, 4. Bechuanaland Protectorate, and 5. Natal 

 also produce gold, but compared with the Transvaal and 

 Rhodesia their output is insignificant. 



West Africa. 



1. The Gold Coast. From time immemorial gold has been 

 found among the sands of the sea-shore, and the margins of 

 the rivers, of that part of West Africa known as the Gold 

 Coast Colony, but in modern times it was the Portuguese who 

 were the first to work the diggings, and later on, when in 

 Charles II 's reign we acquired this territory, we struck a new 



