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The Buffelsdoorn Mine: Battery-Buildings, 1895. Creator: A. Betton.

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The Buffelsdoorn Mine: Battery-Buildings, 1895. Gold mining in Klerksdorp, South Africa. '...the Buffelsdoorn Estate consists of an extensive farm and a mining area equal to 258 claims...Buffelsdoorn, by reason both of its extent and the grade of its ore, must remain, probably for all time, the premier mine in that portion of the Transvaal...the surface works...are said to excite the surprise of all by whom the property is visited...Within a comparatively brief period the property has yielded over 85,000 ounces of gold...it has been computed that there are over 6,000,000 tons of ore still to be extracted. This would appear to ensure to the company, at the present rate of production, a life of about sixty years...the Buffelsdoorn Company is about to acquire some 30,000 acres of adjacent ground, embracing a mining area equal to about 2500 claims, and thus to raise itself at a bound into the position of one of the most extensive corporations of its kind of which South Africa can boast'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM26A07_387

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6,5Mo (361,9Ko) / 15,0cm x 10,9cm / 1772 x 1288 (300dpi)

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exterior outdoors wealth building buildings South Africa industry country metal British industrial mining gold South African north west province wealthy location century affluence mine Britain newspapers press company concept affluent B&W goldmine gold mine gold mining 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper photograph Klerksdorp 19th-century The Illustrated London News Buffelsdoorn Estate & Gold Mining Company Ltd A. Betton A. Belton Belton A. Betton A.