Golden orebodies emerge from beneath old Agnes mine

The golden galaxy might have been consigned to oblivion were it not for mining veteran Peter Skeat and his project savvy partner, Wayne Hatton-Jones, who have introduced modern new thinking that could result in the old lady of Barberton having the last laugh over her now-depleting deep-level Witwatersrand kin.

Agnes was bought at an auction and incorporated within the new Galaxy Gold, a JSE-aspirant, which is confident of raising from R250-million to R400-million in South Africa, the UK and probably also the US for the development of the mine. The capital raised will be used to treble the tonnage at the reviving mine, where an atypical mining method is doing in the erratic greenstone belt what should probably have been done a long time ago.