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Crown Mines

Crown Mines, South Africa, mining gold.

Why Crown Mines is famous

Witwatersrand gold mine in Gauteng. Only the coordinates are verified from an opened page; production and closure still to source.1

Timeline

  1. July 1886Gold found on the Witwatersrand2
  2. 1917Anglo American founded3

What kind of deposit

Quartz-pebble conglomerate gold-uranium (Witwatersrand type)

Crown Mines today

Where gold is mined todayMining in South Africa

Where next

Events

Led toGold found on the WitwatersrandRead what happened near Crown Mines: Gold found on the Witwatersrand.1Led toAnglo American foundedRead what happened near Crown Mines: Anglo American founded.1

Places

Located inJohannesburgCrown Mines is about 6 km from Johannesburg.1

Deposit types

An example ofQuartz-pebble conglomerate gold-uranium (Witwatersrand type)Crown Mines belongs to the quartz-pebble conglomerate gold-uranium family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q31908708 (Crown Mines) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Discovery of the Gold in 1884 South African History Online
  3. 100 years of Anglo American
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Underground mining equipment by Kaupo Kikkas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: Pangkalpinang. Mijn 3b. Een reeks koelies bezig met het transporteeren van grond, Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Kimberley, South Africa: miners and washing gear at the Bultfontein diamond mine. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris., Harris, Robert, active 1881-1888. (Public Domain Mark 1.0).