From Mark Axworthy
The use of termites as indicators of mineral deposits has a longer history than Beth Geiger mentions (30 June, p 35). Maps of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), about 60 kilometres north of Que Que (now Kwe Kwe) show a gold mine named Termite founded by the Black brothers in the 1920s. They established the presence of gold by collecting a mass of termites from a mound, rendering them down and sampling the residue. They used the same methods to establish the nearby Leopard, Leopardess and Lion mines.
Brixham, Devon, UK
