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A paper on the origins of the original Witwatersrand Gold …

When George Harrison discovered the Main Reef of gold at Langlaagte farm in 1886, it was believed by many to be an old river that had been turned on its side. ... This will also explain why some of the gold mines in the Randfontein area had stopes that were vertical. That the impact caused the lake, or multi-layered swamp, to distort is obvious ...

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Deep level gold mining on the witswatersrand 1886 …

The place black mine workers had to live because the mine owners wanted to stop them from stealing. ... Discovered gold on a farm called langlaagte. Gold rush. Began on the white waters ridge which is now known as the Witwatersrand. About us. About Quizlet; How Quizlet works; Get the app; For students. Flashcards;

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Introduction and Randjeslaagte | Johannesburg 1912

Gerhard's Cornelis Oosthuizen, owner of a portion of the farm Langlaagte, gave the prospectors permission to search for precious minerals on his land in April 1886. On the 24th July 1886, Harrison declared that he thought the farm Langlaagte was a payable goldfield. Langlaagte farm showing ownership sub-divisions (Source: Payable …

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Introduction to South African Deep-Level Gold and Platinum …

Learn about the history, geology and challenges of deep-level gold and platinum mining in the Witwatersrand Basin and the Bushveld Complex. This chapter …

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Benchmarks: October 11, 1899: Second Boer War begins, …

The Langlaagte gold mine is seen here in 1893. Credit: British Library. In the Gauteng Province of modern-day South Africa, a 56-kilometer-long ridge reaches heights up to 1,700 meters. The ridge's abundance of cascading waterfalls gave the scarp its name, Witwatersrand, which means "ridge with white waters." The Witwatersrand …

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The challenge of deep-level mining in South Africa

Changes in the political and socio-economic climate create a new challenge to the gold-mining industry. The most significant of these is the emergence of Black trade unions, …

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Gauteng's gold mine tours

Langlaagte Deep Village: one of the earliest remaining gold mining villages Gold Reef City: the only remaining gold mine in the Johannesburg area that has an operational shaft, of the hundreds of …

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What did Johannesburg look like in 1889? | The Heritage Portal

The mines shown in the vignette pictures are Salisbury, Langlaagte, Jumpers, Knights Gold Mining Company on the Main Reef, Roodepoort Central. The style of mining was changing rapidly from outcrop surface mining, with shallow incline shafts and the simple crushing of the ore to the deeper level mining, far more sophisticated …

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The African Mine workers strike of 1946

In January 1943 the measure was used against mineworkers on strike at Langlaagte Estate Gold Mine. Police were called in, and they arrested 500 miners, injuring 20, but only 48 were charged. Ten were sentenced to three months' hard labour, and the rest were fined £12. Two white miners were also charged with incitement to strike – but they ...

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Interior, Cyanide Works, Langlaagte Estate Gold Mining …

Buy Interior, Cyanide Works, Langlaagte Estate Gold Mining Company by South African Photographer as fine art print. High-quality reproduction support@meisterdrucke · 0043 4257 29415

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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 narrow reefs progressed from the outcrops to ... Gold Mining in a Changing Political and Socio-economic Climate South Africa, unlike many other countries, has enjoyed

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File:Four black and one white miner posing in the deep gold mine …

Four black and one white miner posing in the deep gold mine at Langlaagte near Johannesburg, 1920s. Summary [edit] Description: Nederlands: Vier zwarte en een blanke mijnwerker poseren in de diepe goudmijn in Langlaagte bij ...

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Gold! A story of the birth of South Africa's most famous …

On September 20th 1886, gold commissioner Carl von Brandis read a proclamation made by Kruger to several hundred diggers, declaring a number of locations, Langlaagte included, as open to digging.

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Johannesburg - Gold Rush, Apartheid, Mining: Johannesburg's early history is the story of gold. In 1853 Pieter Jacob Marais, a South African prospector, recovered alluvial gold from the …

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The impact of gold mining on the Witwatersrand on the …

The impact of gold mining on the Witwatersrand on the rivers and karst system of Gauteng and North West Province, South Africa. Author links open overlay panel J.F. Durand. ... Walker was in the employ of the Strubens and Harrison was building a house for Willem Oosthuizen on the farm Langlaagte. Although there is some …

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Swazi migrant workers and the Witwatersrand gold mines …

At the core of southern Africa's industrial revolution were the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. The insatiable needs of the gold mining industry for cheap, unskilled black labour and the struggles of African communities to maintain a rural productive base led to the emergence of South Africa's notorious migrant labour system.

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Langlaagte Mine collapse: Mine safety is once again pushed …

Since the week of the 4th of September, an unknown number of illegal miners have been trapped at the Langlaagte disused mine shaft. Johannesburg's oldest gold mine was cordoned off after a fire halted rescue operations.It is not clear if it is one group trapped, or a number in numerous locations, but so far three illegal miners have …

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South Africa: A Minefield of Hope....and Violence

Nevertheless, he prepared to descend into an abandoned gold mine in Langlaagte on the border of Johannesburg and Soweto. An underground fire filled the shafts with toxic smoke, trapping his brother - the father of his young nephew - and his fellow illegal miners in September. Tsikwa did not worry about his own safety, believing …

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Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991

14 September, The first large mining company on the Rand, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company Limited, better known as Knights, is formed with a capital of £210, 000. 14 September, Jos E. de Villiers completes a survey of Block B, Langlaagte on behalf of JB Robinson.

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Desperation and death beneath South Africa's City of Gold

In the annals of South African mining, Langlaagte looms large as the farm where prospectors first stumbled upon gold in 1886, a discovery that would open up the richest veins of gold-bearing rock ...

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File : LANGLAAGTE GOLD MINING CO. head gear, old …

Source/Photographer: Image extracted from page 33 of The Golden Transvaal: an illustrated review, descriptive, historical, etc, by LONGLAND, Henry.Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.from Flickr.

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Unmarked historical cemetery in the Crown Mines area

Abandoned gold mine sites are generally characterised by severe environmental problems and physical hazards. Because of socio-economic problems confronting communities around abandoned mine sites ...

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As South Africa's Gold Mining Companies Decline In Production, Illegal

As South Africa's Gold Mining Companies Decline In Production, ... GRANITZ: Zwane had just suspended a rescue operation at the Langlaagte mine shaft in Johannesburg. This is where gold was found ...

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Desperation and Death Beneath South Africa's City of Gold

Scores of illegal miners die each year in the labyrinth of tunnels that stretch beneath the streets of Johannesburg and beyond

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LANGLAAGTE GOLD MINING CO. head gear, old style

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Introduction to South African Deep-Level Gold and Platinum Mining

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 considered as the most significant. The first large mining company, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company, was established in the same year .

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All That Glitters

On summer's day in 1886, two prospectors discovered gold on a Transvaal farm called Langlaagte. Gold was not new to the Transvaal. African had mined gold hundreds of years earlier. More recently, gold had been …

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Gold mining: Knysna's Millwood gold fields

Barberton thrived briefly as a gold mining region, but it was soon overshadowed by the opening of the reefs of the Witwatersrand. Gold mining continues on a much reduced scale in the Barberton area to this day. WITWATERSRAND: The English miner, J.H. Davis, is credited with the earliest find on the Witwatersrand - on the farm Pardekraal in 1852.

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Witwatersrand Basin Project, Gauteng, South Africa

The Witwatersrand Basin Project is an underground gold mine being developed in South Africa by Australian exploration and development company West Wits Mining (West Wits). The project is being implemented in five stages. The first stage of development focuses on the development of the Qala Shallows, which is estimated to …

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All That Glitters

The gold found at langlaagte was different. The gold discovered there ran for miles and miles underground, 'an endless treasure of gold'. The Richest Gold-Mining Area in the World. Gold changed the face of the Transvaal. Before 1886 it was a poor, struggling Boer republic but ten years later, it was the richest gold mining area in the world.

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