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Disused mines: what’s being done?

5 April 2015 by Alan

In the late 1880s, when the first miners started driving their tunnels through the hard quartzite rock below the Witwatersrand, digging deep to extract the region’s vast gold wealth, they could not have foreseen the dangerous legacy their activities would leave for future generations.

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