Kimberley
I'm surprised to see that South Africa imports gold, since it has a large gold-mining industry. Are you sure you don't mean 'exports'? 'Exports' means 'sending out of a country', which is what South Africa has usually done with gold.
Plenty, these are just a few: - Sports: namely cricket, rugby, soccer - Politics: We have had 3 black presidents, as opposed to Americas 1 Two of our presidents have received Nobel Peace Prizes Gandhi Lived in South Africa - Medicine: The First Successful Heart transplant was done in South Africa - Mining: We have some of the biggest Gold and Diamond Mines in the World -Entertainment: The bands Just Jinjer and Seether (and many others) came from South Africa
In the distant past, gold could be "mined" by panning streams with screened pans that separated the water & dirt from small nuggets of gold. That of course has long been improved by deep level mining. In South Africa as example, deep level mining into gold prospective areas are used to find and bring gold to the surface. Some of the deepest mines and much of the world's gold mining activity is done in South Africa.
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All types of mining from copper mining to gold mining to zinc mining.
Deep mining of any kind is done in tunnels leading off a vertical shaft into the ground, as opposed to 'open pit' or 'strip' mining. Deep mining is principally done for copper.
gold mining
Some mining is done by scraping away the soil (dirt) from the top of the ground. This is called strip mining. Some mining is done by going deep underground into a mine shaft. Some mining, such as gold mining, is done in other ways. Gold can be mined by searching in the bed of a river or other stream of water to remove the flakes of gold. This is called panning or placer mining.
stop all mining operations.
surface mining
It would be mining on the earth's moon. We have not done that.
The most medals South Africa has won in an Olympics is 10 and was done at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp and the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki.