Belangstelling in die goudveld stort in, vier maande ná dit begin het

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.

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