Mining Main Street Traditional Geocache
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Main Street, dominated by the city's mining houses, has been revamped in the last few years, with trees, street furniture in the form of mining artifacts and attractive lighting, and flower beds transforming it into a quiet, clean haven for city workers. The private sector has put guards on the street, in all spending R13-million on the upgrade, together with the City's R2-million.
Other developments in Main Street include storyboards along the street, indicating the history of street names and the buildings, several of which are Art Deco buildings dating back to the 1930s and 1940s. The building on the corner of Main and Sauer streets is the city's fourth stock exchange building.
A huge steel headgear, brought from a mine in Rustenburg in North West, was erected on the corner of Sauer and Main streets. The headgear is the surface section of a large lift that is used to take miners and equipment down into a mine. The impressive piece of equipment is 23m high, weigh 40 tons and contain more than 2 000 nuts and bolts. It was originally erected in 1950.
It also includes a 120-year-old Langlaagte stamp battery, a machine brought to the Witwatersrand in 1886 and used to crush gold-bearing rock extracted from the earth. The battery has an interesting history. Brought to the Reef by oxwagon in the 1880s by the Langlaagte Estates Gold Mining Company, it was buried in one of the dumps south of Johannesburg in 1912. This strange decision was taken by Sir Joseph Robinson, one of the town's mining magnates.
"It was to be buried in the deepest slimes dump on the property, and Sir Joseph was present to see that his wishes were carried out,"
Credits - Johannesburg News Agency(www.joburg.org.za)
Author: Lucille Davie
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While visiting the cache, please take some time to check some of the other artifacts or have a drink / snack at the nearby restaurant / café’s
PLEASE NOTE: This area has extremely high muggle activity and security guards are all over the area, please check out the scene before going for the cache!
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