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Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg

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24 Jul 2019
Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg

By Neil Leighton

What appears to be a mountain is tailings dug up from years of gold mining. These several-hundred-feet piles were sometimes called "mountains of men," recognizing the labor expended in 120 years of mining gold.
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South African History Online. (2014, August 29). Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0098229

South African History Online (2014) 'Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg', South African History Online, 29 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0098229 (Accessed: 29 October 2026).

South African History Online, Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0098229, (accessed 29 October 2026).

"Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg." South African History Online, 29 Aug. 2014, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0098229. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg." South African History Online. August 29, 2014. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/I-0098229.

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