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During this time, gold mining in Johannesburg, and along the Witwatersrand, propelled the growth of South Africa's national economy into a phase of self-sustained development, and created an integrated labour market across southern Africa. ... informed by post-colonialist theory and cultural studies, directs attention to the cross-over and ...
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This study investigated the chemical composition and geochemical evidence of AMD impact in four top soils from gold and coal mining regions near Johannesburg, …
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South Africa has failed to address the adverse environmental and health effects of more than 130 years of gold mining in and around Johannesburg, a new report from Harvard Law School shows.
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After the discovery of the Witwatersrand gold reef in 1886, the city of Johannesburg became, within a very short period of time, the financial and commercial hub of sub-Saharan Africa. Within the first 10 years of its existence, banks, finance houses and mining company headquarters lined its streets (Chipkin, 1993). Successive waves …
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This study examines the effect of corporate governance structures on firm financial performance. The secondary data of selected Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index-listed mining firms' sustainability reports, and integrated annual financial statements are used.
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During this time, gold mining in Johannesburg, and along the Witwatersrand, propelled the growth of South Africa's national economy into a phase of self-sustained development, and created an integrated …
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The provision of more renewable energy at the South Deep gold mine 50 km south-west of Johannesburg is under intense scrutiny by Gold Fields, which describes …
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Crown Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa : A gold mine in the Witwatersrand Reef which produced over 1,000,000 oz. Au per year (1935 timeframe). DRD Gold operates this mine.
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The continued mining of gold has firmly placed Johannesburg as the economical powerhouse of South Africa. While the ultimate source of the gold in the Witwatersrand reef is unknown, the general disposition of the deposits is recognizable and continuous. The area has also featured dedicated botanical gardens to help preserve regions of the land.
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On 14 September 1886, the first large mining company on the Reef, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Company, was formed with a total nominal capital of £3,063,000. The first crushing battery, consisting of five stamps, had been erected on the Reef in 1885 to service the Struben's excavations on the lower West Rand reef, but this was a small ...
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Gold mining deposit report for "Deposit #Usgs10255905" (#USGS10255905) in Gauteng, South Africa. ... The Randfontein Estates Gold Mine is located near Johannesburg, South Africa. It was first discovered in 1887 and began production in 1889. ... THE MODIFIED PLACER THEORY, IN WHICH GOLD WAS DEPOSITED AS PLACER …
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The name is derived from "happy prospect" in Afrikaans, and once upon a time, life and the gold haul were both good at the Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine, 50 miles west of Johannesburg. But two …
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On 22 June, four suspected illegal miners were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head at a gold mine near Johannesburg. Earlier this year, a rescue operation to remove illegal miners from the abandoned Gold One mineshaft on South Africa's East Rand, revealed a reluctance to be rescued for fear of arrest. This brings to …
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Harboring the world's largest gold deposit, the city of Johannesburg, located on the Witwatersrand, evolved in only 125 years from a gold mining camp into a megalopolis of 9M inhabitants. The remnants of this L'age d'Or, giant mine dumps dispersed across the city, are to this day visible within densely populated areas, shaping the city ...
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or colloquially, mine dumps, around Johannesburg [1,2]. Gold mine waste dump dust is fine, dry, tiny particles of earth matter that have been processed and is prone to be carried in the air. Gold
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Gold is important for various reasons but gold provides a good hedge against inflation [].South Africa has the largest known gold resource in the world, which is hosted in the Witwatersrand Basin [].Figure 1 shows the location of some of the gold mining companies operating in South Africa. However, South African gold mining …
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Brazilian researchers linked to the University of São Paulo (USP) have developed a model based on conditions found at Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa, at a depth of 2.8 km, to ...
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Johannesburg is now by far the largest city in South Africa. It is the centre of the world's largest gold-mining industry and has become the biggest engineering and …
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Johannesburg Gold Mining district: Head offices of the biggest role players in the mining industry and location of one of the few remaining gold ore stamp batteries. JSE – Johannesburg stock exchange. Largest securities exchange in Africa. Dating back to Johannesburg's early gold days.
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10 See R.V. Kubicek, Economic Imperialism in Theory and Practice: The Case of South African Gold Mining Finance 1886–1914 (Durham, Duke University Press, 1979); R. Ally, Gold and Empire: The Bank of England and South Africa's Gold Producers, 1886–1926 (Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 1994).
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Established in 1886 after the discovery of gold, the tented mining camp of Johannesburg was originally planned to last only as long as the initial "gold rush". But discovery of the largest gold reef in the world led to the development of the biggest gold mines globally and the associated in-migration of mining prospectors, mining …
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During this time, gold mining in Johannesburg, and along the Witwatersrand, propelled the growth of South Africa's national economy into a phase of self-sustained development, and created an integrated labour market across southern Africa. It also played a key role in shaping the racial oligarchy that dominated South Africa until …
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The South African Human Rights Commission estimates that there are between 8000 and 30 000 illegal miners operating in South Africa. According to the Chamber of Mines, roughly between 5% and 10% of South Africa's annual gold production stems from illegal mining.The conditions in which illegal mining occurs have been …
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By the mid-1890s control of the entire Witwatersrand gold industry rested in the hands of a half-dozen massive mining houses, each of which commanded thousands of workers and millions of dollars in …
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With a current population of over 6 million, Johannesburg will attain official megacity status of 10 million by 2030, according to the UN.South Africa's largest city and its financial and industrial heartland, Johannesburg is shaped by its chaotic beginnings as a gold mining town in the late 1890s, and later by the politics and spatial logic of apartheid urban …
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The name is derived from "happy prospect" in Afrikaans, and once upon a time, life and the gold haul were both good at the Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine, 50 miles west of Johannesburg. But two years after the mine's owners abandoned it because it was unprofitable, sewage runs in the streets of the old mining village, tailings impoundments ...
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By focusing on the mining belt in central Johannesburg, this paper confronts the legacy of the mining industry's hegemonic control over the most central areas of the entire GCR. Examining spaces like the Western Rand presents a unique opportunity to politicize inequality, critique the status quo of development, and suggest an alternative ...
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mining inevitably have substandard economic performance in later years. The analysis focuses specifically on the Central Rand Goldfield, where large-scale, deep-level gold …
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Gold mining presented the South African Republic (ZAR) and the whole southern African regional economy with a long-term economic future and new prospects of industrialisation. However, this socio-economic transformation was dependent on extensive capital investments and the institutionalisation of a coercive labour regime based on racial ...
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As Harrison & Zack (2012) state, at this time, the Johannesburg gold mining sector was producing only 7% of the global output, as compared to the 44.5% average it produced between its peak and the ...
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