Скачать или смотреть The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — The Gold That Changed the World, Not the Miners

The Witwatersrand Gold Rush was the largest gold discovery in human history.
More gold was extracted from this region than from any other goldfield before or since.
It reshaped global currencies, strengthened financial systems, and helped define the modern world.
But it did not reward the people closest to the gold.
According to historical records and contemporary accounts, gold in the Witwatersrand was never accessible to individuals in the way earlier gold rushes had been.
It lay deep underground, requiring capital, machinery, and organization from the very beginning.
This documentary-style story explores how gold mining in South Africa shifted from personal discovery to industrial extraction, why ownership concentrated almost immediately, and how gold became a process rather than a promise.
This is not a story about missing treasure.
It is a story about scale, control, and how the largest gold discovery in history changed global wealth — without changing the lives of most who worked above it.
Who actually benefited from the Witwatersrand gold?
Why did opportunity disappear almost as soon as the gold was found?
And what happens when gold becomes too large to belong to people at all?
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Sources & Further Reading
This video is based on historical mining records, economic analyses, and contemporary accounts related to the Witwatersrand Basin, the rise of Johannesburg, and industrial gold production in South Africa.