Sentences with phrase «african gold discoveries»
Koimtsidis has described Namdini as a «brand new discovery» and said it ranks as one of the biggest West African gold discoveries in the past decade.
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In 1852, the English prospector J.H. Davis discovered the first gold in the Witwatersrand, leading to the South African gold rush and the discovery of much more gold deposits within the basin.
By 1890, the gold fields of Alaska and the Yukon were the principal sources of supply and, shortly afterwards, discoveries in the African Transvaal indicated deposits that exceeded even these.