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Johannesburg

Boom town, South Africa, founded 1886.

About Johannesburg

Largest city in South Africa.1

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People

Worked hereMary 'Pickhandle Mary' FitzgeraldIn 1921 she became the first woman on the Johannesburg City Council.2Worked hereSidney Percival BuntingA Johannesburg lawyer and founder of the Communist Party of South Africa.3Worked hereHermann EcksteinHis firm became a leading house in early Johannesburg.4

Mines

Worked atCrown MinesCrown Mines lies about 6 km away.1Worked atEast Rand Proprietary Mines (ERPM)East Rand Proprietary Mines (ERPM) lies about 26 km away.1Worked atRobinson Deep mineRobinson Deep mine lies about 2 km away.1Worked atWitwatersrand main reef mines, 1886 to 1887Johannesburg lies close to Witwatersrand main reef mines, 1886 to 1887.1

Events

Led toGold found on the WitwatersrandJohannesburg is part of this story: Gold found on the Witwatersrand.1Led toAnglo American foundedJohannesburg is part of this story: Anglo American founded.1

Trade routes

Shipped throughWitwatersrand gold to LondonJohannesburg was an end of the witwatersrand gold to london route.5

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q34647 (Johannesburg)
  2. Mary Fitzgerald South African History Online
  3. Sidney Percival Bunting South African History Online
  4. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement: Beit, Alfred Wikisource (public domain source text)
  5. Van-Helten J.J., Empire and High Finance: South Africa and the International Gold Standard 1890-1914 Journal of African History 23(4) (Cambridge University Press)

Pictures on this page: Hermann Eckstein00.jpg, not recorded on the file page (Public domain).

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).