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SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia

Date
24 Aug 2007
Updated
30 Sep 2019
SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia

South Africa’s gold-panning team returned with one gold and two bronze medals from the World Gold Championships in Slovakia on 24 August 2007.  The team consisted of 26 members with three of the medal winners being from Mpumalanga. Though it is not a very popular sport, it has been around for a long time, with the championships having been held annually since 1977. Gold-panning is basically an old method of gold mining. In the sport, participants are required to search for tiny pieces of gold from man-made pools using pans in the fastest time possible. As a mining method, It is cheap and simple, though not very lucrative.

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  1. 01  Hlungwane M. World Gold Panning Championshipfrom Gold fever Prospecting [online] Available at: www.goldfeverprospecting.com[Accessed on 13 August 2012]
  2. 02SA Gold Panning 2012 WORLD GOLD PANNING CHAMPIONSHIPS[online] Available at: www.sagoldpanning.co.za[Accessed on 13 August 2012]  

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2012, August 16). SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091123

South African History Online (2012) 'SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia', South African History Online, 16 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091123 (Accessed: 9 August 2026).

South African History Online, SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091123, (accessed 9 August 2026).

"SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia." South African History Online, 16 Aug. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091123. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia." South African History Online. August 16, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0091123.

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