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Mine/Quarry Golden Quarry

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Located in South Africa :: Mpumalanga  :: Barberton
Category: Commercial & Industrial :: Mine/Quarry

The Golden Quarry became the richest mine, man ever worked. This mine was hand dug more than a century ago and still stands. Golden Quarry has also become known as one of the 'Mining Wonders' of the world. It originated when Graham Barber discovered a rich gold-bearing reef at Reimers Creek in 1884. This find led to inevitable rush of diggers and fortune-seekers to the Barberton area Edwin Bray realised that the gold being panned in the creeks, must have washed down from areas higher up. He fossicked the hills to seek the source of gold and discovered the fabulously rich Sheba Reef in the mountains south east of Barberton in 1885. With 14 partners, he started the Sheba Reef Gold Mining Company. The famous Bray's Golden Quarry was so named because the rock appeared to be almost solid gold. A fifty ton test run of Sheba ore yielded 300 ounces of gold. The cavern like quarry was excavated more than a century ago by hardy diggers using only picks and shovels, but remains one of the wonders of South African Gold Mining. Today, Sheba mine is one of the oldest, and richest, working gold mines in the world and has been in production for more than a hundred years.

Contact
Address :  Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Contact :  Wynand
Contact 2 :  Pieter
Cell :  +27(0)076 825 5794
Cell2 :  +27(0)​72 668 4063
Email :  Click Here
Website :  Click Here

Directions

From Barberton, take the R38 to Kaap Muiden for 25 km. Take the Sheba turn off right (South) Sheba is another 4 km along this tarred road.

Travelling Information

CELL NETWORK:
The main cell network is ​Vodacom, Cell C.


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