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THE discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made in the year 1885. The growth of the field was at first slow. Some of the earliest workers believed that the auriferous gravel, exposed in shallow open workings, was a superficial deposit of the nature of the alluvial “placers” of California and Australia. The true character of the conglomerate beds was, however, soon realised by those who were fortunate enough to possess some geological knowledge, and by 1887 stamp-mills were in operation, the output from the Witwatersrand mines for that year being 81,045l. From 1887 onward the progress has been rapid.
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Gold Mining in the Transvaal 1 . Nature 87, 27–29 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087027a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/087027a0