Brief history of gold mining in South Africa

Chamber of Mines (now Minerals Council South Africa) founded 1890 South Africa began to slow down in the 1880s, as the new deposits being found tended to be pyritic ore and gold could not …

Can Theta Gold Mines revitalize South Africa's oldest gold mines

The country's first gold mines, however, were established 130 years ago in the Sabie-Pilgrims Rest Goldfield and produced gold from an entirely different type of deposit. …

Barberton, Mpumalanga: ancient rocks and early life

Barberton ' s gold mines still exist, and you can watch creative young artisans fashioning jewellery from the oldest gold in the world next to the Barberton M useum. A far cry from the rowdy, …

An old gold mine in South Africa | A journey deep

A journey deep underground into one of South Africa's oldest gold mines located in Barberton, Mpumalanga. Follow us at tunnel.engineering Video credit: Philip Schedler …

Adam's Calendar: A 300,000-Year-Old Alien Site in Africa?

Adam's Calendar, which may be the oldest man-made structure which is still in existence, was discovered in 2003 completely by accident. Johan Heine, a South African pilot …

Mponeng Gold Mine, South Africa

The Mponeng gold mine located in the Gauteng province of South Africa, is the deepest operating mine in the world. It was the last underground operation by AngloGold …

What are the largest gold mines in South Africa?

The Kromdraai gold mine is one of the oldest in South Africa and is located just a 40 minute drive north of the country's capital city. The entrance to the Kroomdraai gold mine …

The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa's Illegal …

A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa's interior. Welkom was once the center of the world's richest goldfields. There ...

Michael Tellinger: The Lost Technologies of Enki

Michael Tellinger: The Lost Technologies of Enki Archaeological proof of the advanced civilization on the southern tip of Africa that preceded Sumer and Egypt by 200,000 …

Gold Mining Industry in South Africa| History, Trends, …

Driefontein Gold Mine (Sibanye-Stillwater) One of the richest gold mines in South Africa. Produces high-grade gold and has been operational since 1952. Gold Mining Industry in South Africa; South Deep Gold Mine (Gold Fields) One of …

Can Theta Gold Mines revitalize South Africa's oldest gold mines

Introduction. South Africa is famous for gold, with paleoplacer deposits of the Witwatersrand Basin having produced a large fraction of the world's gold. The country's first …

16 List Of Gold Mines In South Africa (2025)

200,000 Year Old City

The discovery of a 200,000-year-old city in a gold mining area fits in very well with theories – advanced by bestselling author Zecharia Sitchin and others – that ancient extraterrestrials …

South Africa's Ancient Annunaki Gold Mines

South Africa's Ancient Annunaki Gold Mines Michael Tellinger has become an international authority on the origins of humankind and the vanished civilizations of southern Africa. …

Golconda Gold: Galaxy

Galaxy Gold is one of the oldest mining operations in South Africa with the discovery of gold by Jack Greaves in 1888. Click to enlarge. Galaxy consists of 21 ore bodies all of which can be accessed via adits at level 17 and level 22. …

The 200,000-year-old city found in Southern Africa may rewrite …

The 200,000-year-old city found in Southern Africa may rewrite history. In South Africa, about 150 km west of port Maputo, Mozambique, a giant stone city has been discovered. ... The geology …

Gold mining: Knysna's Millwood gold fields

Knysna, though, wasn't the first small town in South Africa to feel the excitement of gold - nor should the discoveries of the colonial era have come as a surprise, since various indigenous …

Adam's Calendar: The 300,000-year-old Stonehenge in South Africa

Shortly after its discovery, some in the scientific community asserted that Adam's Calendar had been debunked. They argued that Adam's Calendar, and other stone circles like …

A history of mining in South Africa

M M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted …

16 Gold Mines in South Africa

TauTona Mine is one of the deepest gold mines in the world and is one of the oldest in South Africa (mining operations started there as far back as 1962). The Mine's depths are close to 4 …

South-African-Mines

The Witwatersrand is in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Gauteng Province is the roughly the southern portion of what was previously the Transvaal, formerly an independent state settled …

Show Mines of South Africa: Blaauwbank Historic Gold Mine

Blaauwbank Historic Gold Mine is called the oldest Gold Mine in Gauteng as it was established as early as 1874. The early years are not very well documented though, the first account is from …

The World's Oldest Man-Made Adam's Calendar at …

The 75,000-year-old Adam's calendar is crobably the World's oldest man-made structure. Also referred to as "African Stonehenge," Adam's Calendar is a standing stone circle about 30 m in diameter in Mpumalanga, …

Top Gold Mining Companies In South Africa

The origin of Gold Fields Limited dates back to 1887 when Cecil John Rhodes and Charles Rudd founded Gold Fields of South Africa. One of the country's oldest gold mining companies, its …

What's left in the wake of South Africa's abandoned gold mines

Thousands of abandoned gold mines are scattered across South Africa, polluting the water with toxics and filling the air with noxious dust. For the millions of people who live …

Kaapschehoop's Stone Circle (Also Known as Adam's Calendar)

Explore the mysterious Adam's Calendar in Kaapsehoop, South Africa's ancient stone structure supposedly linked to astronomical phenomena. Discover the rich history and stunning natural …

Top 5 Gold Deposits in South Africa| List of Gold Mines

Barberton Mines are some of the oldest in South Africa, still producing gold over a century later. 9 Modder East Mine. It's located in Springs, Gauteng, which is owned by Gold …

Adam's Calendar: Oldest Megalithic Site in the World?

It should be noted that the area surrounding Adam's Calendar is extremely rich in gold. Several mining shafts have been reported in the area with one of the richest working mines in the world today being the Sheba Gold …

Adam's Calendar

In 2003, South African pilot Johan Heine was flying over the hills of the gorgeous Mpumalanga region of South Africa when he crashed his plane into the mountainside. After exiting the plane, Heine ...

Gold Mining History of Barberton South Africa

One of the oldest working gold mines in the world, established in 1885. H W Peacock was a member of the Diggers' Committee. He discovered the famous Peacock gold nugget on 4 July 1912 at Coetzeestroom29, 1 km west of …

List Of Coal Mines In South Africa (2025)

List Of Coal Mines In South Africa. Grootegeluk mine; The Grootegeluk Coal Mine is a coal mine (referred to as an open cast coal mine) that is located within the Waterberg Coalfield which is …

List Of Closed Gold Mines In South Africa

The underground gold mine also has a large resource base of uranium. How many coal mines have closed in South Africa? More than 6,000 abandoned mines pierce South African soil, and …