Barberton Gold Mines. Of the multitude of gold mines discovered and worked in the late 1880's, four are still being mined. They are: Agnes (Company: African Pioneer Mining) New Consort, Fairview and Sheba collectively known as Barberton Mines.

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• Mining started in 1886 at Sheba Mines – oldest operating mine • Currently BML have three operations i.e. Sheba, New Consort and Fairview • BML treat about 24 000 ore tons per month at about 11g/t • BML also have a Tailings Retreatment Plant (90,000t/m) • Combined gold production per month is 290kg

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Gold: Discovery of gold. The Barber brothers and their cousin, Graham, were prospecting in a rift at the foot of the Ingudu mountains where they came upon a rich gold reef and proceeded to peg a claim.Just the next day the Umvoti Reef, next to the Barbers claim, was discovered. On June 21, 1884, Graham Barber wrote a letter to the State Secretary to inform him that payable gold had been found ...

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Barberton, the 'Daisy Town', was named after Henry Barber on 24th of July 1884 by the Gold Commissioner David Walson, after Barber and his cousin Fred discovered gold in the Area. The mining of gold in South Africa began in Barberton, where Tom McLachlan found the first traces of alluvial gold in 1874. Since then, gold fields flourished as ...

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Barberton Mines has produced more than 75% of the total production from the BGB. Mineralisation at Barberton Mines is typically continuous in the short- to medium-range on strike with long-range geological and grade continuity being experienced down-dip. Gold occurs in either vein-hosted ore lode deposits or as free milling gold associated with ...

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Information Strike Gold! Just like the early Pioneers with an afternoon panning in one of Barberton`s `golden` rivers. Let the experts show you how to find a fortune, although you will have to let it go again, as gold panning is now a `catch-and-release` sport.

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The New Consort Gold Mine in the Palaeo- to Mesoarchaean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa is one of the oldest recognized orogenic gold deposits on Earth. The gold mineralization is hosted by discrete mylonitic units that occur at, or close to, the contact between the mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks of the c. 3,280 Ma Onverwacht Group and the mainly …

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Lily mine, Barberton, City of Mbombela Local Municipality, Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa : Gold mine owned and operated by Vantage Goldfields. Open pit operation started in 2000. Archaean gold deposit near Malalane and about 24 kilometres northeast of Barberton…

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Data from regional and mine-scale mapping, alteration zonation, and ore mineral paragenesis studies are given for eight mafic-ultramafic, shear zone-hosted, gold-bearing quartz vein deposits within the 3.1- to 3.5-Ga Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa.

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Gold mining is the main operation at all four mines. The Barberton area is abundant with gold-bearing reefs. How many mines are there in Mpumalanga? There are more than 200 mines in Mpumalanga as listed on the official Department of Mineral Resources website. This includes 13 gold mining operations.

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Gold mining in South Africa first began in Barberton when in 1874 alluvial gold was discovered by an acclaimed South African prospector, Tom MaLachlan. After MaLachlan's golden find, more individuals were eager to make similar discoveries

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related to illegal gold mining in Barberton. The study is both descriptive and explanatory. For data collection, the study used in-depth interviews and documentary analysis. The study reveals persistent lack of coordination (with regard to support, team work and transparency), capacity (with regard to human, communication, equipment, ...

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The gold deposits of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, which include the Sheba Group, New Consort, Fairview and Agnes are located in Barberton Mountain Land in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa, approximately 350 km east of Johannesburg (#Location: Sheba - 25° 42' 53"S, 31° 8' 4"E; New Consort - 25° 39' 6"S, 31° 4' 37"E; Fairview - 25° 44' 0"S, 31° 4' 33"E; Agnes - 25° 49' 57"S, 30° 58 ...

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Barberton's Heritage Walk is now one of the Town's key attractions, along with the various mining tours and gold panning experiences that allow tourist to get a taste of life in the Gold Rush days. Yet there is more to Barberton than gold. The mountains that surround Barberton contain some of …

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The gold deposits in Barberton are known for their nugget-like properties, due to the presence of free gold. They are characterised by discrete, high-grade shear-zone hosted vein and lode deposits found in flexures in the regional dip and strike of major shear zones or faults. Today Barberton features both surface and underground mining projects.

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The Barberton Greenstone belt is one of the oldest and best exposed Archaean greenstone belts on Earth. and is almost 3.5 billion years old. The small and beautiful "Makhonjwa Mountain Range"close to Barberton, where gold and asbestos. deposits occur, stretches from Jeppe's Reef to Oshoek and from Shiyalongubo Dam to Queen's river.It is

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12%The New Consort Gold Mine in the Palaeo- to Mesoarchaean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa is one of the oldest recognized orogenic gold deposits on Earth. The gold mineralization is hosted by discrete mylonitic units that occur at, or close to, the contact between the mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks of the c. 3,280 Ma Onverwacht Group and the mainly …

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