AN EARLY MINE
Prospectors working in the Wilgespruit Gouge, 011 the Rand, South Africa, a wild spot a few miles north of , the main gold reef, have unearthed parts of Fred Struben's battery, which crushed the first ore on the Witwatersrand goldfields in 1886; At this spot were focused the pioneer endeavours to find gold in payable quantities. Since the discovery of the payable reef 47 years ago, an amount estimate.d at £1,600,000,000 (at the higher gold price) has been mined from the Rand. The rise in the price of gold has_ greatly stimulated prospecting, and it was the prospecting revival which led to the discovery of Struben's buried battery,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 3
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110AN EARLY MINE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 3
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