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Simply put, if gold and diamonds hadn't been discovered in the 1800s, what impact would that have had on the Orange Free State and Transvaal? Would the British still have fought two wars to exert authority over them if the mineral discovery had been delayed until the 1900s? Would the two countries have floundered as agrarian republics without mineral wealth? How would discovery of the gold and diamonds have in the 1900s have gone over-say discovery doesn't occur until sometime during or immediately after an alt-World War One in the 1910s? What about potential European immigration to the South African Republics after such a war following the discovery of the gold and diamonds?