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- ↑ Members - About | Chamber Of Mines Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "SA Chamber of Mines renamed: Minerals Council South Africa". Mining Review South Africa. 23 May 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Shorten, John R. (1970). The Johannesburg Saga. Johannesburg: John R. Shorten Pty Ltd. p. 1159.
- ↑ Bright, Rachel (2013). Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10: Race, Violence, and Global Spectacle. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137316578.
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