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Gold Paved the Way

The Story of the Gold Fields Group of Companies

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. The Early History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Mr. Rudd and Mr. Rhodes

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 3-14
    3. After Diamonds — Gold

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 15-25
    4. The Company

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 26-35
    5. Rudd Sets off on a Journey

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 36-47
    6. ‘Our Theory was wrong …’

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 48-56
    7. Shafts and Boreholes

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 57-70
    8. A ‘Swell’ Engineer

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 71-82
    9. A Profit of £2,161,778

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 83-90
    10. War Shuts Down the Mines

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 91-101
    11. Lord Harris in the Chair

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 102-114
    12. Profits Fall

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 115-127
    13. Sub Nigel’s Riches

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 128-140
    14. The Lost Reef

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 141-151
    15. ‘The Egg of Columbus’

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 152-165
    16. The Triumph

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 166-172
  3. World-Wide Enterprise

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
    2. A ‘Gamble’ in Foreign Parts

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 175-190
    3. Red-letter Day

      • P. A. Cartwright
      Pages 191-201

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gold Paved the Way

  • Book Subtitle: The Story of the Gold Fields Group of Companies

  • Authors: P. A. Cartwright

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81679-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1967

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-81679-8Published: 25 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economic History, Economic Geology

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