Germiston (jûr´mĬstən), city, now part and seat of Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa, on the Witwatersrand. The chief industries are gold mining and processing and the manufacture of liquid oxygen; other chemicals, machinery, textiles, and clothing are also produced.
"Vlakfontein Mine" is a producer deposit site in South Africa Territory, South Africa. It is a medium deposit, located in the East Rand Basin Of The Witwatersrand Goldfields mining district and is not considered to be of worldclass significance. 1 Gold, pge, and uranium deposits are documented at "Vlakfontein Mine."
It is an industrial center of the Witwatersrand, a gold and uraniummining region. Click the link for more information., and Germiston Germiston, city, now part and seat of Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa, on the Witwatersrand.
Silicosis, Respiratory Disease and GoldMining in ... Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, ... (1914) S. van Niekerk to Director ... SouthAfricanMines Mining Artifacts. South African Mines. ... Ownership of the diamond and gold mines became concentrated in the hands of a few ... Simmer Deep Gold Mine, Germiston, Transvaal, 1914.
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Germiston (1965/66 1994) Germiston is part of the Witwatersrand conurbation and is located east of Johannesburg (East Rand). It is South Africa's sixth largest city with 70% of the western world's gold passing through its gold refinery and it has South Africa's largest railway junction.
GERMISTON, a town of the Transvaal, 9 M. E. of Johannesburg. Pop. of the municipality (1904) 29,477, of whom 9123 were whites. It lies 5478 ft. above the sea, in the heart of the Witwatersrand goldmining district, and is an important railway junction.
Consolidated Compound, on the far southeastern tip of the Witwatersrand goldmining crescent. The workers demanded that the gates of the compound be opened, as they intended to march the forty miles to Johannesburg to present their grievances to Henry Taberer at KwaMzilikazi, the headquarters of the Native Recruiting Corporation.
Witwatersrand (South Africa) Economic heartland of Gauteng province, South Africa. Its reef, which stretches nearly 100 km/60 mi, produces over half the world's gold. Gold was first found here in 1853. The chief city of the region is Johannesburg . Forming a watershed between the Vaal and the Olifant rivers, the Rand comprises
The Witwatersrand Rifles ... Germiston is now the seat of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality which includes much of the East Rand, both men made fortunes and the town sprang up next to the mine. In 1921 the worlds largest gold refinery, the Rand Refinery, was established at Germiston, seventy percent of the western worlds gold
Germiston jûr´mĭstən, city, now part and seat of Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality, Gauteng prov., NE South Africa, on the Witwatersrand . The chief industries are gold mining and processing and the manufacture of liquid oxygen; other chemicals, machinery, textiles, and clothing are also produced.
Superior Mining's Mangalisa project is located over a potential eastwards extension or trend of the Free State ( Welkom) Goldfield, which is the southernmost extension of the prolific goldbearing Witwatersrand sedimentary basin. The Free State Goldfield one of the seven major goldfields located within the Witwatersrand Basin.
Gold Mine. Photos from 1983 . George Harrison Park . first gold discovery site on Witwatersrand . claim 32 . early gold ore crusher. Witwatersrand, rocky uplift in northeastern South Africa. Also known as the Rand, it is the most productive goldmining district in the world.
Western Transvaal System – Germiston East to Brakpan. The main lines running due east of Germiston to Boksburg, Benoni, Brakpan and Springs pass through a heavily industrialised area – that is apart from the chain of gold mines that were at one time a major part of the mining activity on the Witwatersrand.
A Source Apportionment Methodology for South African Gold Mines Ingrid Dennis1, Rainier Dennis1, Michael Eckart2 and Christoph Klinger2 ... have taken place over 120 years in the Witwatersrand gold mining region. Over time, as ... Germiston, Brakpan, Benoni, Heidelberg, Springs and .
Following a comprehensive survey, the site at Germiston, 16 kilometres east of Johannesburg, was selected because services and rail facilities were available and its position was the geographical centre of the Witwatersrand gold mining area. By December 1921, the .