History Of Gold Mining In South Africa

South Africa is the most advanced and richest country of Africa. It owes all its economical development to abundance of mineral resources like gold, diamond, platinum and coal etc. The country is the leading producer of precious metals such as this metal and platinum. Almost 50% of the reserves of the world are found in South Africa. South Africa was the largest gold producer and exporter till 2007, when China surpassed it. South Africa kept its title of the largest gold producer of the world for about half century.

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History of Gold Mining in the US

Gold   mining  consist of a number of processes and techniques, employed to extract raw  gold  from earth. These  gold  extraction techniques include  gold  panning, metal detecting, sluicing, dredging etc.

This metal is an expensive element; thus, individuals and nations have always been interested in  gold  extraction, mainly to gain economic benefits. In the United States of America, a major rush of  gold   mining  took place with the discovery of  gold  at the Reed farm in North Carolina, in 1799. Thirty years latter, this metal was discovered at the southern Appalachians in Georgia, which was followed by the California  Gold  Rush in 1848-52 in the Sierra Nevada, as a result of which a lot of people started to settle down in California. This was only the beginning of the history of this metal discovery and mining in America. Later on, many states in America, like Alaska, Alabama, Texas, Virginia and many more, were found to be blessed with reservoirs of this metal.