Gold, prices, and the Witwatersrand

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These gold fields dominated production throughout the twentieth century, but production peaked at. Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic num making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

In a pure form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile ally, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under Group: group The Witwatersrand Basin is a largely underground geological formation which surfaces in the Witwatersrand, South holds the world's largest known gold reserves and has produced over billion ounces (o metric tons), which represents about 50% of all the gold ever mined on earth.

The basin straddles the old provinces of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and consists of a Age of rock: Archaen. Over time, gold and silver prices tend to move in concert, mostly in opposition of depreciating fiat currencies. Recently, the price of gold has been about 60 times the price of silver, while historically it was closer to 20 times.

Silver prices tend to be more volatile than gold. When the Struben brothers, Fred and Harry, began prospecting the Witwatersrand ridge aroundthey found gold in small quantities in the streams and quartzes. When Fred Struben discovered the “Confidence Reef, he states in his diary “ I was finding a grain of gold.

Gold Value and Gold Prices From takes the reader on a journey of discovery that includes: Why expert opinions regarding gold prices are often not helpful A history of gold prices since President Nixon closed the "Gold Window" in The macro-economic variables used to empirically model the price of gold The formula for the Gold Empirical Model that has accurately /5(6).

Adapted from Gold and Workers by Luli Callinicos, The importance of the gold-mining industry. The South African goldfields, (click on the map to see it larger, and to do the next exercise) A few years after the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, a string of mining towns marked out the gold.

Inafter years of rumors, legends, and smaller discoveries, it was definitively established that there was a huge, rich deposit of gold under the Witwatersrand, a rocky ridge in South Africa. The Witwatersrand Gold Rush initiated South Africa’s domination of world gold production.

Although legends of a South African “ El Dorado ” existed among the natives of the area, it was not untilwhen a poor Australian prospector named George Harrison staked the first claim, that the vast riches of the “Rand” were discovered. small specks of gold appear. The rocks are chock-full of it.

Nearly half the gold ever mined in human history has come from these conglomerates in South Africa's Witwatersrand basin. Small-scale gold prospecting and mining began in this area in the early s, but the first mother lode wasn't discovered until Two itinerant.

The Witwatersrand deposits have produced almost 40% of all the gold produced on earth since beginning of time over billion with a B ounces that’s the equivalent of million ounce deposits if there’s one area of agreement on the Witwatersrand gold deposits is that they are truly world class solid gold.

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Witwatersrand, also called The Rand, ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng province, South name means “Ridge of White Waters.” The highland, which forms the watershed between the Vaal and Limpopo rivers, is about 62 miles ( km) long and 23 miles (37 km) wide; its average elevation is about 5, feet (1, metres).

This page features a live, interactive gold price chart. The current price of gold can be viewed by the ounce, gram or kilo. You can also look at numerous timeframes from 10 minute bars to charts that depict the last 30 years of price action. The process involves liquidising the sand or slimes, then the pumping of the resulting slurry to the plant for the extraction of the gold.

Although the Witwatersrand Supergroup is exposed mainly in the southern part of Gauteng and North West Province, economically viable Cited by: Peak gold production occured in when over metric tommes were mined, generating US $1, billion in sales, however gold production has declined since The average recovery grade of the Witwatersrand gold mines has declined f28 grammes/tonne in to 5,3 grammes/tonne in 2 Minerals.Explorer and prospector Jan Gerrit Bantjes () was the first and original discoverer of a Witwatersrand gold reef in June having prospected the area since the early s, as well as co-operating the Kromdraai Gold Mine in to the NW of present-day Johannesburg together with his partner Johannes Stephanus Minnaar in an area Location: Witwatersrand Basin, Johannesburg, South Africa.