West Wits shifts first ore as South African gold production looms

The company’s broader Witwatersrand Basin project sits on hallowed mining ground — a patch of earth that has yielded a staggering 1.5 billion ounces, or 62,000 tonnes of gold since the early 1900s.

Once ruled by gold mining behemoths such as Rand Mines and Durban Roodepoort Deep, the basin…