PIONEER’S BATTERY
REVIVAL ON THE RAND JOHANNESBURG, Aug 0. Prospectors working in the AVilgespruit Gorge, a wild spot a few miles north of the main gold reef, have unearthed parts of Fred St.ruhens’ battery, which crushed the first ore on the ’Witwatersrand goldfields in 1880. At this spot were focussed the pioneer endeavors to find gold in payable quantities. Since the discovery of the payable reef 47 years ago, an amount estimated at £1,606,000,000 (at the higher gold price) has been mined from the Rand. The rise in the price of gold has greatly stimulated prospecting, and it was the prospecting revival which led to the discovery of Strubeius’ buried battery.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 12
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111PIONEER’S BATTERY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18206, 29 September 1933, Page 12
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