Interest in the goldfield collapses, four months after it began

November 1891 · local · Prince Albert

Production fell to as little as seven ounces a month the following year. The Registrar of Claims withdrew in 1896; by 1898 Spreeuwfontein and Klein Waterval were abandoned. Atherstone's 1872 verdict, and the twenty silent years that followed it, had been the correct reading of the ground all along.

Sources

• Rose Willis & Doreen Atkinson, "Zeekoegat: Explorations in the Koup Karoo" (2022) 38pp cameo

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• subject The Prince Albert gold rush