ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 concentrates on the inception of mining by, and the mine exploration economy of, Tanganyika Concessions, which undertook the first successful effort to set up a mining industry in the Central African Copperbelt. The chapter draws on company records as well as the personal records of the early company employees who worked in Northern Rhodesia and Katanga. The most thought-provoking documents analysed include travelogues, diaries and photographs depicting the organisation and processes of early mining work, modes of mine exploration, and relations between white management and African labour. The wide range of available materials offers a fuller picture of the inception of European mining and mine exploration in Northern Rhodesia and Katanga than is available elsewhere. Taken as a whole, they provide insight into the operation of colonising processes and in particular how these processes took place, why they were considered desirable by various interest groups, and the impact that these processes had on physical and human environments in parts of Northern Rhodesia and Katanga.
