Banket (mining term)
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This article is largely based on an article in the out-of-copyright Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, which was produced in 1911. (October 2015) |
Banket, a South African mining term, applied to the beds of auriferous conglomerate, chiefly occurring in the Witwatersrand gold-fields. The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a pastry, known in Dutch as banket, resembling almond hard-bake. The word is the same as banquet, and is derived ultimately from bank or bench, meaning table-feast, hence applied to any delicacy or to various kinds of confectionery, a use now obsolete in English.[1]
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- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Banket". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 320. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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