SouthAfricanMines Mining Artifacts
The Witwatersrand is in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Gauteng Province is the roughly the southern portion of what was previously the Transvaal, formerly an independent state settled by the Boers after the Great Trek. J. H. Davis, an Englishman, was reported to have found gold quot;in considerable quantitiesquot; in July 1852 at Paardekraal near Krugersdorp, which was the earliest discovery on the Rand.