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'Invisible' gold could be worth $24 billion in South Africa
The Witwatersrand region has tailings hills containing an estimated $24 billion worth of gold, which can be mined using new, more efficient methods.
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Archeology
Discover the oldest scorpion fossil
Archaeologists have discovered a 350-million-year-old scorpion fossil in South Africa, considered the oldest animal fossil ever lived on the ancient continent of Gondwan…
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South Africa: discover the oldest fossil fish bones in the world
Scientists at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa have discovered a fossil of the world's oldest lamprey, around 360 million years old, near Grahamstown, Easte…