History of Johannesburg.

From: Mining Journal | Date: September 8, 2000 | Copyright information

Although Johannesburg was founded in 1886 its birth could just as easily have come at any time in the preceding 40 or so years. There is some fragmentary evidence that gold was first discovered on the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) in 1834 by Carel Kruger, who was hunting in the area. What is known with more certainty is that John Henry Davis, an English geologist, prospected around Krugersdorp in 1852, apparently with some success, and that Pieter Jacob Marais found traces ...

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