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  • Witwatersrand Gold Rush - Wikipedia

    The first discovery of gold in the region was made in 1852 on the Pardekraal farm, Krugersdorp, in the South African Republic (ZAR) by John Henry Davis, a Welsh mineralogist. Davis presented his gold find to President Andries Pretorius but feared what would happen to the new republic if the discovery became widely known. Davis was told to sell the gold, worth £600, to the Transvaal Tr

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  • Witwatersrand - Wikipedia

    The Witwatersrand plateau consists of a 5000-to-7000-metre-thick (3.1–4.3 mi) layer of mainly sedimentary rocks laid down over a period of about 260 million years, starting approximately 2.97 billion years ago. The entire series of rocks, known as the "Witwatersrand Supergroup," consists of very hard erosion resistant quartzites, banded ironstones and some marine lava deposits, interspersed with softer, more easily eroded tillites, mudstones and conglomerates. The oldest roc

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  • Gold Mine tours - Johannesburg and Gauteng mining tour

    Langlaagte Deep Village. Indeed, one of the earliest remaining gold mining villages, Crown mines, Langlaagte. Gold Reef City: Actually, only remaining gold mine in the

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  • Introduction to South African Deep-Level Gold and Platinum Mining

    2022.8.13  The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in South Africa occurred between 1884 and 1886 with George Harrison’s 1886 discovery on the farm Langlaagte

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  • The challenge of deep-level mining in South Africa

    The discovery of the gold-rich Main Reef Group of reefs on the farm Langlaagte in 1886 marked the opening of the richest and most extensive goldfield in history. Mining of the

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  • Gold! A story of the birth of South Africa’s most famous industry

    2016.12.5  On September 20th 1886, gold commissioner Carl von Brandis read a proclamation made by Kruger to several hundred diggers, declaring a number of

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  • Desperation and Death Beneath South Africa's City of Gold

    2016.9.15  Africa. Desperation and Death Beneath South Africa's City of Gold. September 15, 2016 0:43 AM. By Reuters. Miners look on after they retrieved the bodies

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