At 2.7 Billion Years Old, This Geological Titan Holds 40% of All Gold Ever Mined and Still Has Half a Trillion Dollars Left

At 2.7 Billion Years Old, This Geological Titan Holds 40% of All Gold Ever Mined and Still Has Half a Trillion Dollars Left

By Evelyn Hart – Indian Defence Review Buried under an ordinary stretch of South African hillside lies a geological secret so vast it supplied nearly half of all the gold humanity has ever pulled from the Earth. South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin, a sedimentary geological formation outside Johannesburg, has produced more gold than any other region on Earth. Geological surveys and mining records show it accounts for roughly 40 percent of all the …