witwatersrand in English

noun
1
a region in South Africa, around the city of Johannesburg. A series of parallel rocky ridges, it forms a watershed between the Vaal and Olifant rivers. The region contains rich gold deposits that were first discovered in 1886.

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1. It was later overshadowed by the 1886 Witwatersrand Gold Rush.

2. She then studied architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand, graduating in 1987.

3. The second geologic environment comprises the important placer deposits of the Dominion Reef and Witwatersrand Systems.

4. It shows the closest trace-element affinity to pyrites from the Barberton Mountain Land, the source area model for the Witwatersrand sediments.

5. Francois Venter is a senior director in the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit at the University of Witwatersrand.

6. Alexander attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she obtained a bachelor's degree and a Master of Arts in Fine Arts in 1982 and 1988.

7. The auriferous conglomerate horizons (reefs) in the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa are in many places cut by hydrothermal quartz veins that frequently contain sulphide, bitumen, and, less commonly, free gold.

8. Beatrix is a large, shallow to intermediate level gold mining and processing operation located in the Free State Goldfields of the Witwatersrand Basin, near the town of Welkom in the Free State Province of South Africa, 240 km south-west of Johannesburg.