Underground Gold Mine Tour | Gold Reef City Theme Park | Johannesburg | South Africa

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Gold Reef City - Gold Mine History
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The Gold Reef City theme park is situated on a 10Ha site that surrounds the then-number 14 gold mine shaft at Crown Mines. Indeed, this 19th-century gold mine produced 1.4 million kilograms of gold before closing in the 70’s.
The shaft was opened in 1897, thus only 11 years after Johannesburg was established, and was part of the gold reef stretching 100 km from east of Boksburg to Randfontein in the west.
This made the Gold Reef City Shaft 14 the world’s richest producer of gold, with 1.4 million kilograms over its 90-year lifespan.
This shaft was then at its time, one of the deepest gold mines and worked by 30 000 miners.
Gold mine tour takes you back in time with a first-hand look at an old mining town, as well as the vibrant life of such a gold town.
A miner’s language (Fanagalo) was developed in 1910. This then enabled the miners from different cultures and languages to communicate.
Fanagolo was simplistic consisting of only 2000 words relevant to gold mining, however, 25% of these were swear words.
For miners, this was a tough way to earn a living with heat, dampness, darkness, and additionally the ear-shattering noise of drills.
Lighting was by candlelight, thus posing a continued risk of explosion due to the presence of methane gas.
Donkeys pulled the gold-laden coco pans, staying down the mine for three months before then going blind.
There is gold remaining in the mine, however, the price of gold at the time the mine closed, made it uneconomical to remove.
The lower levels of the mine are currently flooded - the 19th level to the 57th level. Thus, underground gold tours are conducted only up to 5th level.
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