eng Sketch map of the Indwe coal fields

eng A sketch map showing coal-borings in the Camdeboo and Stormberg area. Shows rivers and place names, coal bores. Some colour. Relief shown by rock drawings. Scale 1/2 inch to 100 roods.

eng W.A. Richards (Firm) See all items with this value

eng Report by E. J. Dunn, Esq., upon recent coal-borings in the Camdeboo and Stormberg.

eng Annexures to votes and proceedings of the House of Assembly\, 1883\, Vol. II. Report G. 35/1883

eng Coalfields--South Africa--Indwe--Maps See all items with this value

eng [1883] See all items with this value

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eng Dunn, E. J.

eng University of Cape Town. Libraries

eng University of Cape Town. Libraries. Special Collections. Cape of Good Hope Parliamentary Papers

eng This item is the property of the University of Cape Town Libraries. For permission to reproduce or quote, please contact the Special Collections of the University of Cape Town Libraries.

eng islandora:25123

eng South Africa--Eastern Cape, Province of--Indwe

eng map

eng 75 x 57 cm.

eng image/jpeg

This map shows the Indwe Coal fields in the Eastern Cape, the only coalfields in the Cape Colony, and dates back to 1883, when they were trying to find coal or energy in the Cape. Not many people know about them today. It was lignite that they found there – a low-grade form of coal. The Cape Colony expanded its railway network to be able to transport the coal, and a town developed as housing for the coal miners. It was named Indwe after the river. Indwe is the isiXhosa word for the Blue Crane, South Africa’s national bird. Owing to the discovery of better coal elsewhere, the mining was halted and today Indwe is a commercial farming centre, including stock and agriculture.

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