Krugersdorp, Gauteng

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Krugersdorp is a mining city in the West Rand of Gauteng, South Africa. Its population is cca 290,000 (2001). Krugersdorp was founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius and named after Paul Kruger.

Apart from gold, manganese, iron, asbestos and lime are also mined in the area. Krugersdorp is the site of the December 1880 gathering at which more than 6,000 men vowed to fight for the Transvaal's independence. When gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand, a need arose for a major town in the west of the reef.The government bought part of the farm Paardekraal and named the new town after the Transvaal President Paul Kruger. The British built a concentration camp here during the Second Boer War to house Boer women and children.

In 1952 the West Rand Consolidated Mine was the first in the world to extract Uranium as a byproduct of the gold refining process.

Krugersdorp no longer has a separate municipal government, and the municipality has become part of the Mogale City municipality, along with surrounding towns.

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West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng
District Seat: Randfontein
Local municipalities Mogale City • Merafong City • Randfontein • Westonaria • West Rand
Cities and towns Randfontein Krugersdorp Carletonville Westonaria Bekkersdal Roodepoort
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West Rand is the name of the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of
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Gauteng

Area 17,010 km²
Population (2001) 8,837,172
Languages isiZulu (21.5%)
Afrikaans (14.4%)
Sesotho (13.1%)
English (12.5%)
Races Black (73.8%)
White (19.9%)
Coloured (3.8%)
Asian (2.
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Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (17 September 1819 - 19 May 1901) was the first president of the South African Republic, and also compiled the constitution of the Republic. He also founded the city of Pretoria and named it in honour of his father.
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was a prominent Boer resistance leader against British rule and president of the Transvaal Republic in
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GOLD refers to one of the following:
  • GOLD (IEEE) is an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade).
  • GOLD (parser) is an open source BNF parser.

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2, 3
(oxides: acidic, basic or amphoteric
depending on the oxidation state)
Electronegativity 1.55 (Pauling scale)
Ionization energies
(more) 1st: 717.3 kJmol−1
2nd: 1509.
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3, 4, 6
(amphoteric oxide)
Electronegativity 1.83 (Pauling scale)
Ionization energies
(more) 1st: 762.5 kJmol−1
2nd: 1561.9 kJmol−1
3rd: 2957 kJmol−1

Atomic radius 140 pm
Atomic radius (calc.
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Asbestos is derived from a Greek adjective meaning inextinguishable. It is distinguished from other minerals by the fact that its crystals form long, thin fibers. Deposits of asbestos are found throughout the world.
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For other uses, see Lime.


Lime is a general term for various naturally occurring minerals and materials derived from them, in which carbonates, oxides and hydroxides of calcium predominate.
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Transvaal (lit. beyond the Vaal [pale river]) was one of the British colonies that united to form the Union of South Africa in 1910. After the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 the bulk of the South African Republic became the Transvaal Colony, while the remainder was
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Witwatersrand is a low, sedimentary range of hills, at an elevation of 1700-1800 metres above sea-level, which runs in an east-west direction through Gauteng in South Africa. The word in Afrikaans means "the ridge of white waters".
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (October 10, 1825 – July 14, 1904), better known as Paul Kruger and fondly known as Oom Paul (Afrikaans for "Uncle Paul") was a prominent Boer resistance leader against British rule and president of the Transvaal Republic in
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Internment is the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives the meaning as "The action of ‘interning’; confinement within the limits of a country or place".
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Boer (IPA: /bur/) is the Dutch word for farmer which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking pastoralists of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 1700s as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 1800s to settle in the Orange Free State,
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1949 1950 1951 - 1952 - 1953 1954 1955

Year 1952 (MCMLII
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Uranium (IPA: /jʊˈreɪniəm/)is a white/black metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92.
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West Rand is the name of the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of
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Gauteng

Area 17,010 km²
Population (2001) 8,837,172
Languages isiZulu (21.5%)
Afrikaans (14.4%)
Sesotho (13.1%)
English (12.5%)
Races Black (73.8%)
White (19.9%)
Coloured (3.8%)
Asian (2.
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Randfontein is a gold mining town in western Gauteng, South Africa. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.
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Merafong Local Municipality is a local municipality in Southern District Municipality, North West, South Africa.

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  • Khutsong

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Randfontein
Local municipalities Mogale City • Merafong City • Randfontein • Westonaria • West Rand
Cities and towns Randfontein Krugersdorp Carletonville Westonaria Bekkersdal Roodepoort

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Randfontein
Local municipalities Mogale City • Merafong City • Randfontein • Westonaria • West Rand
Cities and towns Randfontein Krugersdorp Carletonville Westonaria Bekkersdal Roodepoort

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Randfontein is a gold mining town in western Gauteng, South Africa. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.
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Carletonville is a gold-mining town in western Gauteng, South Africa. It is one of the richest gold-producing areas in the world. At 3,749 m, Western Deep Levels is one of the world's deepest mines.
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Westonaria is a closely-knit conurbation of ten suburban townships in western Gauteng, South Africa. During the apartheid era, blacks lived outside town in Bekkersdal.

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Bekkersdal is a township situated 7km east of Westonaria and 14km south of Randfontein in the Gauteng province. It was established in 1945 to house Africans who worked in town and at the surrounding gold mines. In 1983 the township was granted municipal status.
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