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{{Short description|Bed of auriferous conglomerate}}
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'''Banket''', a [[South Africa]]n [[mining]] term, applied to the beds of [[auriferous]] [[Conglomerate (geology)|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.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Banket|volume=3|page=320}}</ref>

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