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DescriptionFerreira's Gold Mine in 1886.jpg	English: Ferreira's Gold Mine in 1886. The mine was named after Colonel Ignatius Ferreira who was a founder of Johannesburg. The mine is an extention of the——Main Reef.
Date	1886
Source	http://home.wlu.edu/~patchw/his_223/Slideshows/1900_Colonial%20rivalries_files/slide0093_image031.jpg
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JPEG file comment	In 1885 gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand; here are the early stages (ca. 1887) of mining the largest gold reef ever discovered anywhere in the world. Today the mine shafts extend 12,000 feet below the surface of the earth. From Leonard Thompson, A HISTGORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, rev. edn (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995), plate #19.