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Boksburg

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a town of the Transvaal, 14 m. E. of Johannesburg by rail. Pop. of the municipality (1904) 14, 757, of whom 4 1 75 were whites. It is the headquarters of the Witwatersrand coal mining industry. The collieries extend from Boksburg eastward to Springs, 11 m. distant. Brakpan, the largest colliery in South Africa, lies midway between the places named.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Boksburg'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​b/boksburg.html. 1910.
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