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Get PriceThe Witwatersrand gold fields of South Africa account for more than a third of the world s total gold production since mining started there in 1886 4 The volume contains 13 papers covering 10 major classes of gold deposits and three summary papers and was presented as a Society of Economic Geologists sponsored short course held November
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