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Aug 19, 2018· Gold was discovered in the Magaliesburg area in 1874, some ten years before the discovery of the Witwatersrand gold deposits ''but only small scale mining was undertaken at that time. Henry discovered the first gold deposits in the mountains on the farm Zuikerboschfontein (Blaauwbank) near the present Magaliesburg railway station.