Miners, surveyors and geologists frequently used thick rubber aprons to
protect their backsides when sliding down the glassy footwall quartzites
of the inclined stopes in the Orange Free State gold mines of the
Witwatersrand when I worked there in 1957-61,
Peter Siems.
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