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Banket, aSouth Africanmining term, applied to the beds ofauriferousconglomerate, chiefly occurring in theWitwatersrand gold-fields. The name was given to these beds from their resemblance to a pastry, known in Dutch asbanket, resemblingalmond hard-bake. The word is the same asbanquet, and is derived ultimately from bank or bench, meaning table-feast, hence applied to any delicacy or to various kinds ofconfectionery, a use now obsolete in English.[1]
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