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Article: City described.
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- Mining Journal
- Article date:
- September 8, 2000
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Johannesburg is one of the world's few major cities (and the second largest, after Birmingham in the UK) not to be built besides a river, a lake or the sea. But it is built on a natural feature, the Main Reef outcrop, which runs through the city from east to west, almost like an invisible river.
Marking the line of the reef is part of the present motorway system and suburbs such as Selby and Booysens, once given over to mining, but now largely used for light industry. To the south of these are the residential areas of Turffontein and Rosettenville and, to the southwest, Soweto.
To the north of the outcrop, away from the undermined ground, is the ...