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  2. Harmony Gold (mining) - Wikipedia

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    Target 1 is located in the Free State Province, some 10 kilometers north of Welkom [7] and 270 kilometres southwest of Johannesburg. Mining operations at Target 1 comprise one primary underground mine, with a depth of approximately 2 945 metres.

  3. Merriespruit tailings dam disaster - Wikipedia

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    Number 4A in the Harmony Gold Mine tailings complex failed. The dam was designed in the early 1970s by the mine's metallurgical manager and a representative from the tailings dam contractor. [1] The town of Merriespruit, a 250-house suburb of the Goldfields town of Virginia, was already established when the No. 4 dam was started in 1978. The ...

  4. Welkom mining explosion - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) reported late on 22 June 2023 that the miners had died in a mining shaft at the abandoned Virginia mine in Welkom, Free State. [7] [8] [6] [9] The miners, believed to be foreign nationals from Lesotho who were there mining illegally, may have died on or around 18 May 2023. [10] [3] [9]

  5. 2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths - Wikipedia

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    A former police officer with 12 years' experience in cases of "illegal mining" said he feared that hundreds more bodies of "illegals" could still be underground in mines in the city of Welkom, according to a report in the leading Afrikaans daily, Beeld. He estimated that about 3,000 illegal miners work underground in the mines in Welkom alone. [3]

  6. Category:Mining in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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  7. Welkom - Wikipedia

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    Welkom officially came into being on 15 April 1947, six years after the first mining lease in the area was awarded to the St Helena Gold Mining Company, and was proclaimed a town on 23 July 1948. On 14 February 1968, after 21 years of existence, Welkom received city status, and celebrated this event with the opening of the Civic Centre by Mrs ...

  8. Free State Gold Rush - Wikipedia

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    Oryx gold mine, near Welkom, South Africa. The Free State Gold Rush was a gold rush in Free State, South Africa. It began after the end of World War II, even though gold had been discovered in the area around the year 1934. [1] [2] It drove major development in the region until the mid–to–late 1980s as part of the mineral revolution in ...

  9. Vaal Reefs mining disaster - Wikipedia

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    A methane gas explosion at the St. Helena gold mine in Welkom severed the cable of a double-deck elevator, causing it to fall 1.4 km (0.9 mi) to the bottom of the mine shaft, killing all 52 people on board. 10 others who were not in the elevator were killed in the explosion. The two Vaal Reefs mine disasters and the St Helena mine disaster ...