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Modderfontein Gold Mine is a small to medium mining operation located in the Witwatersrand Basin, near Benoni 22km east of Johannesburg, South Africa's …

Anglo Boer War

By the year 1919 Peake had tired of farming and had moved to Benoni outside Johannesburg where he was employed as a Shift Boss at Modder "B" Gold Mine.

The Joburg township where outlaws make the rules

But most days, he squeezes just a tenth of a gram from the 15kgs or 20kgs of rock he chisels from the bowels of the old Modder B mine, almost directly underneath …

(PDF) Privileging the Machines: American Engineers

The plight of workers in South Africa's deep-level gold mines in the era following the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 provides a powerful example of just how …

Modderfontein Gold

Modderfontein Gold Mine is a small to medium mining operation located in the Witwatersrand Basin, near Benoni 22km east of Johannesburg, South Africa's …

New Modder Gold Mine Near Benoni, South Africa

The New Modder Gold Mine is located in close proximity to Benoni, a town in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Known for its substantial production output, this mine extracted …

Profitability, Respectability and Challenge: (Re)Gaining …

The history of black labour at the South African gold mines has conventionally been punctuated by three great African strikes, in 1920 (often obscured …

Modderfontein 'B' gold mine, Springs, City of Ekurhuleni …

Modderfontein 'B' gold mine, Springs, City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa : NEW! - MineralAuctions benefit auction for MINDAT.ORG!

The Underground Route to Mining: Afrikaners and the …

In sharp contrast, this paper demonstrates that Afrikaners already constituted a substantial percentage of white underground workers, particularly as a discrete category of …

Vol 15 No 2

Most of the mines at the time - Blue Sky, Angelo, Comet, Driefontein, Balmoral, and Witwatersrand Gold Mine - were situated to the north of the 'Rand Tram' …