Gold Reef City
With its fully furnished miners houses, museum exhibits and the
various gold mining artifacts; Gold Reef City is designed to be
an authentic reproduction of Johannesburg in the years of the gold
pioneers. A train circles the park enabling a quick perusal of the
facilities.
There are many shops all of which are decorated in the "old"
style of "brookie lace," with pressed ceilings. There
is a "turn of the Century" Hotel where the style of the
era is reproduced and the same "old" feel extends to the
costumes of the staff as well as the style of restaurants and bars.
A popular attraction is the Gold Reef City Tribal Dancers who perform
twice daily during the week, and three times daily at weekends.
In addition to these appearances certain members perform the popular
Gum Boot Dance and give a Marimba Show.
The park is built around the number 14 shaft of The Crown Mines.
This shaft held the world shaft sinking record in 1969 when the
sinking team drilled and blasted 77.5 meters through quartzite in
30 days. Gold Reef City offers visitors the opportunity to take
a ride down this famous shaft. Every day a Gold Pour demonstration
is held where a gold bar is smelted in an "arc" furnace
and then cast into a bullion bar.
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