WONDERFUL RAND GOLD MINES
Since the Rand goldfields were discovered something like 359 millions sterling have been extracted from 208 million tons of rock torn from the bowels of the earth. According to Sir Lionel Phillips, "if you take the 208,000,000 tons and bring them into cubic feet, and then consider a railway tunnel, say, 14ft high and 10ft wide, you can get a tunnel from Capetown to Khartum to represent the amount of ore crushed on the Witwatersrand — a tunnel 3400 miles in length. That even does not cover the whole of the energy that has been exercised, because, of course, in addition to the tons actually crushed, a large amount of waste material has been excavated from the earth." Sir Lionei Phillips calculates that the end of the century will not see the Rand mines exhausted. The rise in temperature as you descend is so slow in these mines as compared with what is generally found in .other parts of the world, that work will probably ba possible, ug to 7000 ft or 800Wt vertical
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 17, 23 August 1913, Page 13
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177WONDERFUL RAND GOLD MINES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 17, 23 August 1913, Page 13
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