Carletonville

Province

Carletonville is one marked by the gold mining town, about 50 kilometers southwest of Johannesburg, between the mountain ranges in the south and Gatsrand Witwatersrand in the north, at the intersection of highways R 500 and R 501 2011, it had 23,000 inhabitants.

Originally it belonged to the western edge of the District Municipality South African province of Gauteng. As part of the resolution of cross-border communities Carletonville was like slammed the entire Merafong City Local Municipality of the Southern District Municipality in the North West Province. This reclassification comes in part on large resistance in the population, especially in Khutsong. Neighboring towns of Carletonville are Khutsong, Blybank and Welverdiend.

The region is one of the largest gold producing regions of the world, because in the Witwatersrand is the largest known gold soap in the world. Since the early 1930s, gold is mined there. Since 1937, due to the claim - staking of the various active there gold mining companies a disorderly settlement developed. In November 1946, the company Consolidated Gold Fields decided (former owner was Cecil Rhodes) to establish a proper settlement and proclaimed it publicly in 1948. Carletonville is named after the engineer and longtime director of the Company Consolidated Gold Fields, Guy Carleton Jones. The official city status ( Town Council status ) received Carletonville on 1 July 1959 by a merger with the neighboring settlement of the gold field Oberholzer, now a suburb of Carletonville. Mid-1970s, hundreds of people died in the crackdown several waves of strikes black miners by the police ( Carletonville massacre ), thousands were injured.

The infection rate in relation to STDs and especially HIV is high among the miners and in the townships of Carletonville.

Since the 1960s occurred in Carletonville, the subsoil consists of dolomite, multiple mining subsidence on where entire houses collapsed partially in burrows. Also strong groundwater depletion due to targeted degradation of drainage fields and considerable water contamination by heavy metals and radioactive contaminated waste water are attributed to gold mining in the area. To cool the air in the extremely profound in the earth gold mines of Carletonville aboveground huge air conditioners are installed, the release of CFC gases in the atmosphere is extremely high.

Since middle of the 21st century, gold reserves will be mined, the mining company plans to begin an agricultural re-use of the land. So is intended for export to the region around Carletonville to the cultivation of roses in hydroponics.

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