Blyvooruitsig
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Blyvooruitzicht shown within Gauteng
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| Coordinates: 26°24′S 27°24′E / 26.400°S 27.400°ECoordinates: 26°24′S 27°24′E / 26.400°S 27.400°E | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| District | West Rand |
| Municipality | Merafong City |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.71 km2 (1.43 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 698 |
| • Density | 190/km2 (490/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 84.2% |
| • White | 15.8% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • Xhosa | 26.8% |
| • Afrikaans | 15.2% |
| • Tswana | 12.3% |
| • Sotho | 10.5% |
| • Other | 35.2% |
 Photos of the Sinkhole memorial from the Genealogical Society of South Africa
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Location: 26°24′17″S 27°22′10″E / 26.40472°S 27.36944°E
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Blyvooruitzicht () is a gold mine and gold-mining village in Gauteng, South Africa. It is situated about 3.5 km south of the centre of Carletonville and 80 km westwards from Johannesburg.
The name of the village is of Dutch origin meaning "happy prospect". The farm Blyvooruitzicht was first farmed by Pieter Daniël Roux and the main road through the current village is named after him. Established in 1937, Blyvooruitzicht village was built to house the workers of the Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine which was the first to mine the gold of the West Wits line. In the late 60's and early 70's it boasted having the highest earnings per capita in the world. However taking into account that it was proclaimed at the height of the apartheid era, it is probable that these statistics did not factor in the "non white" worker's earnings.
Production started in 1942 under the ownership of Rand Mines. Later ownership passed to DRD (in 1997), then Village Main Reef and more recently Blyvoor Gold, a company run by Peter Skeat and Richard Floyd.
An ancient Sinkhole south west of the village called the Hutgrot Cave was the shelter of the Batswana tribes during the Mzilikazi raids.
Blyvoor mine and village was the setting for a soap opera filmed in the 1970s called "The Villagers".
The highest point in the village is a hill called "Isidingo", which is where the mine Manager's house was built. This is from where the current soap opera "Isidingo" derives its name.
Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mining Company Limited (Blyvoor), has underground and surface operations and is situated on the north-western edge of the Witwatersrand Basin. Established in 1937, it was the first mine on the West Wits line. Production started here in 1942 and Blyvoor has been an operation of DRDGOLD since 1997.
Blyvoor has two main gold-bearing horizons: the Carbon Leader Reef (CLR), which is one of the principal ore bodies of the Carletonville goldfield; and the Middelvlei Reef, which is some 75 metres above the CLR horizon. At present mining is concentrated on No 5 shaft with all mining operations on No 4 and No 6 shaft put to a stop due to low grades and high risks.
Blyvoor also treats gold-bearing slimes dams and waste rock dumps. The mine’s carbon-in-leach (CIL) plant is currently processing some 300 000 tonnes of tailings per month.
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