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25
Cape Times, 22 March 1912.
26
The South African Mining Journal, 27 December 1913, p. 413.
27
Cape Archives: LC294/1148.
28 Spargo, P.E., and Laugksch, R.C. The History, Preservation and Restoration of the

Vredehoek Tin Mine, Devil’s Peak, Cape Town: A Report Prepared by the Science

Education Unit, University of Cape Town, at the Request of the City Planner’s
Department. City of Cape Town, October 1990.
29
‘C.B.E.’, “A Run to the Manganese Mines”, The Cape Monthly Magazine, December 1873,
New Series, Vol. VII, No.42, pp.359-364.

30 Standard & Mail, 23 May 1874.
31 Standard & Mail, 6 October 1874.

32
Anon, ‘Western Province Manganese // The Old and the New Prospects’, The South African
Mining and Engineering Journal, 21 September 1946, p.65.
33 Cape Argus, Tuesday 25 April 1893, p.5/1.

34
Cape Archives, File 3/2/1/7.
36 This comment no doubt refers to the Du Toitskloof manganese mine, closed down many

years before, where the remoteness of the ore deposit necessitated the construction of

the long, complicated and expensive aerial ropeway required in order to transport the
ore from the mine to a point near Wellington.

37 South Africa, 20 March 1909, 627-628.
38
Cape Times, Friday 29 October 1909.
39 Cape Times, Friday 15 November, 1929.

40
Welsh, A. B. ‘Report on the Manganese Deposits in the South West Districts of the Cape
Province’, Cape Town, 1918.

De Beer, M (1987) The Lion Mountain and the story of Bantry Bay, Clifton and Camps Bay of
the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula, mdb, Cape Town.

(Any additional information relating to any of the mining ventures discussed in this article
will of course be most welcome and may be sent to the author at P O Box 211, Rondebosch

7701 or peter@spargo.wcape.school.za)