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Gold mine tailings outside Johannesburg



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What appears to be a mountain is tailings dug up from years of gold mining. These several-hundred-feet piles were sometimes called "mountains of men," recognizing the labor expended in 120 years of mining gold.

By Neil Leighton

1989

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