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Pilgrim's Rest goldfield mine

Pilgrim's Rest goldfield mine, South Africa, mining gold.

Why Pilgrim's Rest goldfield is famous

Wikidata describes the town as the place where a gold rush occurred in 1873. Output and closure are not verified from an opened page.1

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Timeline

  1. 1873Alluvial gold found at Pilgrim's Rest2

Pilgrim's Rest goldfield today

Where gold is mined todayMining in South Africa

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Events

Led toAlluvial gold found at Pilgrim's RestRead what happened near Pilgrim's Rest goldfield: Alluvial gold found at Pilgrim's Rest.1

Places

Located inPilgrim's RestPilgrim's Rest goldfield sits at Pilgrim's Rest.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q2992348 (Pilgrim's Rest) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Mpumalanga South African History Online

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).