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Coal mining's advent in South Africa can best be traced to the start of gold mining in the late 19 th century, particularly on the Witwatersrand, with the first coal in appreciable tonnages extracted on the Highveld coal field close to the nascent Witwatersrand gold mines.
In the early days of South African gold mining, the crude bullion produced had to be shipped to London for refining. The concept of a local refinery had been considered for several years before the first positive step was taken in 1909, when the Transvaal Chamber of Mines founded the Witwatersrand Cooperative Smelting Works, to treat the gold and silver bearing byproducts from reduction works.
South African Gold Market Introduction. Gold and South Africa are synonymous, and have been since the discovery of the largest gold reefs in the world at Witwatersrand in 1886 and the subsequent gold rush which led to the founding of South Africa's now largest .