• African Mines Mining Companies

    Western Areas Limited Gold mining company; West Rand Consolidated Mines Ltd South African Mining and exploration company. Zambia. Carollee Emerald Mine; Mitondo Emerald Mine Mitondo mine situated 60 Km from Kitwe, in the copper belt and 300 km from Lusaka the Capitol City of .

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  • Brief history of gold mining in South Africa Mining for ...

    The Rand Rebellion/ Revolt saw white mine workers protest the industry's attempt to replace semiskilled white men with cheap black labour leaving about 200 people dead, more than 1,000 injured, 15,000 men out of work and a slump in gold production.

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  • Gold Fields shortens KDC's estimates Miningmx

    Apr 24, 2012· [miningmx] — GOLD Fields' KloofDriefontein complex (KDC) on the West Rand, one of the country's largest gold mines, will be exhausted by 2028. A year ago, it was still estimated that the huge gold mine would continue until 2040. But according to the .

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  • Driefontein, Gauteng Wikipedia

    Similar names in Afrikaans: Oos Driefontein and Wes Driefontein, Oosdriefontein and Wesdriefontein. The seat of the district is Randfontein. Part of the West Rand 1886 Witwatersrand Gold Rush region, although to the westsouthwest of Johannesburg itself, it is part of the Johannesburg conurbation. It does not seem [clarification needed] the place after which the Battle of Driefontein (Second Boer War, 10 March .

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  • Dewatering of the Far West Rand dolomitic area by gold ...

    The management of the gold mines had decided to dewater some of the dolomitic compartments to allow their workers to extract the goldbearing ore of the underlying Witwatersrand Supergroup economically and safely. Several of the gold mines on the Far West Rand have now reached the end of their life span and are due to be decommissioned.

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  • Management and Mitigation of Acid Mine Drainage in South ...

    Figure : A typical mine dump from gold mining on the West Rand, South Africa17 The abandoned mines and dumps are a source of AMD. In the abandoned mine pits, water has been accumulating, because the pumping that was practised during mine operations has stopped. The water in the pits reacts with chemicals in the exposed rocks to form AMD.

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  • Johannesburg Neighborhoods and How They Got Their Names ...

    Sep 11, 2017· Germiston is a city in the East Rand region of Johannesburg. It got its name from two gold prospectors: John Jack from the farm of Germiston near Glasgow, and August Simmer from Vacha in Germany. The men made a fortune from gold mining. By 1921, the world's largest gold refinery, the Rand Refinery, was established at Germiston.

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  • west rand gold mining co v r

    Mines Of The Rand Mining District (Gold) The Rand Desert ... Mines Of The Rand Mining District ((Gold; MINES OF THE SILVER BOOM OSDICK (RED MOUNTAIN) ... It is the west extension of and contains about 70' of the Butte Vein, and between it and the Kinyon mine a tunnel is being run to find the vein. H. ...

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  • DRDGold expecting rapid gold output from West Rand ...

    Sep 07, 2018· JOHANNESBURG () ­– The high quality of the gold tailings retreatment infrastructure that surface gold mining company DRDGold has .

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  • Witwatersrand Basin Project – WEST WITS MINING

    The major orebodies mined in the Central Rand Goldfield are the Main Reef, Main Reef Leader, South Reef, Bird reefs and Kimberley reefs (Figure 3). Figure 2. The mines of the Central Rand Goldfield. West Wits WBP comprises two historic leases, namely the DRD lease and Rand Leases. Figure 3. Geology of the Central Rand Goldfield underlying the WBP lease.

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  • The pollution and destruction potential of mining waste

    The pollution and destruction threat of gold mining waste on the Witwatersrand A West Rand case study . OELOFSE, HOBBS, J. RASCHER and COBBING . CSIR, Natural Resources and the Environment, PO Box 395, Pretoria, South Africa, 0001 . Waste from gold mines constitutes the largest single source of waste and pollution

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  • Gold Fields Integrated Annual Report 2017: Stakeholder ...

    The South Deep mine is located near Westonaria in the West Rand District Municipality of the Gauteng province, approximately 45km from Johannesburg. The West Rand is a historic gold mining district, with South Deep operating alongside mines managed by Sibanye .

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  • west rand consolidated mine ferreirasdorp the oldest gold ...

    , when the West Rand Consolidated Mine became the first mine to extract uranium as a byproduct of gold mining, Gold Mine: The Old Kromdraai Gold Mine on . [More] west rand consolidated mine ferreirasdorp the oldest gold,

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  • News

    The South African National Seismograph Network automatic locator detected a seismic disturbance in the West Rand gold mining area on Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 at 17:47 South African Standard Time. The event had a primary magnitude of M= This is an automatic location and magnitude which may change once reviewed by a seismologist.

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  • Uranium Mine Ownership South Africa

    Oct 24, 2019· In South Africa, uranium is a byproduct of gold mining. > See also: Database Index: Uranium Mining in SubSaharan Africa (African Development Information Services) Historical uranium production to 1996 (395k PDF Chamber of Mines) . Beatrix mine, Free State Province Beisa Reef mining .

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  • Carletonville Wikipedia

    The villages are located to the South of the R501 Provincial Road which forms the Southern boundary of Carletonville. While the mining Companies themselves have changed hands, or amalgamated and changed names, the mine villages situated to South are known as Blyvooruitzicht, (the oldest) Western Deep and Elandsrand. To the West and South West is Doornfontein and Deelkraal and to the East is .

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  • Seismicity in Deep Gold Mines of South Africa ...

    tional, at five mines in the Far West Rand mining district, South Africa, approximately 80 km southwest of Johannesburg (Fig. 1). The five mines (Elandsrand, Deelkraal, Mponeng, Savuka, and TauTona) are the deepest in the world and extract ore from two goldbearing quartzite reefs, the Ventersdorp Contact Reef and the deeper Carbon Leader Reef.

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  • mines on sale south africa gold and plutinum

    evaluate the issues in the South African mining operations. Many old South African gold mines in the West Rand of Johannesburg and platinum mines outside Rustenburg, where there have historically been labor issues, were designed during Apartheid years to utilize cheap migrant labor. Get Price

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  • The Golden Thread: Spooktown of the Far West Rand

    By the time of the Oosthuizen disaster there were gold mines all over the Far West Rand, extending through to the Free State. Dealing with underground water became a learning curve which treated water very much like waste to be disposed of in whatever most convenient method.

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