Vaal Reefs is a gold bearing reef which is mined near the town of Orkney in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in the North West province of South Africa.
The town of Orkney is home to a large gold mining operation originally owned by AngloGold Ashanti, a company that was originally incorporated in 1944 under the name of Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining Company Limited.[2]
^ abcd"Main Place Vaal Reefs". Census 2001.
^"Group information" (PDF). AngloGold Ashanti Limited. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
VaalReefs is a gold bearing reef which is mined near the town of Orkney in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in the North West province of South...
The VaalReefs mine disaster occurred on 10 May 1995 when an underground locomotive in the VaalReefs gold mine in South Africa fell into the mine shaft...
100 Feared Dead in Gold Mine Accident". Associated Press. 11 May 1995. "VaalReefs". Minerals Council South Africa. "Mine Disaster Toll Could be 62". Associated...
became trapped, resulting in a sudden stop which led to the fatalities. VaalReefs mining disaster, a 1995 mine elevator accident in South Africa which was...
The Vaal Triangle is a triangular area formed by Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark and Sasolburg about 60 km south of Johannesburg, South Africa. The area forms...
include the 1960 Coalbrook mining disaster, with 437 fatalities, the VaalReefs mining disaster, in 1995, which killed 104 mine workers, and the Trans-Natal...
Jacques Chirac is elected president of France. 10 – The VaalReefs mining disaster at VaalReefs gold mine in Orkney. A runaway locomotive falls into a...
Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019. "VaalReefs". Minerals Council South Africa. Archived from the original on 26 April...
the Free State goldfields (seven major mines simultaneously) and the VaalReefs mine. During 1945, the AAC moved into the coal industry by acquiring Coal...
that included the cleaning of gold dust from inside mine shafts for the VaalReefs Gold mine, and implemented a system of worker remuneration that combined...
The Duke of Edinburgh visit South Africa. May 10 – The VaalReefs mining disaster at VaalReefs gold mine in Orkney. A runaway locomotive falls into a...
disaster, where 17 people died when a tailings dam failed. May 10, 1995: VaalReefs mining disaster, South Africa; a locomotive fell down a lift shaft and...
Impala3 Vaal Reefs2 Ventersdorp Vryburg 1 NWU Pukke play club rugby in the Golden Lions Pirates Grand Challenge. 2 Klerksdorp and VaalReefs play club...
gold-mining territory of Klerksdorp and Orkney. He was a uranium plant clerk at VaalReefs mine, and joined the National Union of Mineworkers as an organizer. He...
training as guerrillas and recruiting others. 26 – A mine lift cage at the VaalReefs gold mine falls 1.9 kilometres (1.2 miles), killing 23. Two insurgents...
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. March 26 – A mine lift cage at the VaalReefs gold mine in South Africa falls 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi), killing 23 workers...
Witwatersrand, and was a founder of the Adopt-A-School Foundation and the VaalReefs Disaster Fund. Creamer, Martin (18 July 2014). "James Motlatsi". Mining...
chairwoman of the VaalReef Disaster Fund for three years, appointed to look after the widows and children of the 104 men killed in the VaalReef mining disaster...
−12 (65-68-68-67=268) 1 stroke Mark McNulty, Gary Player 10 31 Jan 1981 VaalReefs Open −12 (70-69-68-69=276) 2 strokes Tienie Britz 11 17 Dec 1989 Twee...
plunge of an elevator, more than a mile down a shaft at South Africa's VaalReefs gold mine. The group— 28 black and three white miners— had boarded a double...
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