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South Africans should not expect to see the end of electricity blackouts soon despite an offer of a R500m grant made by Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday to help the country deal with the energy crisis.
During the last half of the 19th century, prospectors found gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc in the northern San Juan Mountains. The news spread quickly, and thousands more came to this region. However, mountain mining was dangerous work, with frequent cave-ins, explosions, rockslides and avalanches.