- Nigel, Gauteng
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Coordinates: 26°25′13″S 28°28′6″E / 26.42028°S 28.46833°E
Nigel, Gauteng Country 
South AfricaProvince Gauteng Metropolitan municipality Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Time zone SAST (UTC+2) Nigel is a small gold mining town in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The town is on the edge of the area known as the East Rand, the industrial engine room of Johannesburg.
A prospector, reading Sir Walter Scott's The Fortunes of Nigel at the time (see Nigel), discovered gold on the farm Varkensfontein in 1886 and immediately formed the Nigel Gold Mining Company. The town which grew around the mine still bears names derived from Scott's book.
Today the town is focused primarily on mining and also has various heavy industries.
Nigel's municipal government became part of the much larger Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality municipality following the creation of new local government structures in 2000, along with most of rest of the East Rand.
On 1 August 2010 a fire at the Pieter Wessels old age home lead to the death of 22 people.[1]
References
- ^ "Four more residents die at old age home". BuaNews Online. 3 August 2010. http://www.buanews.gov.za/news/10/10080312451002. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
External links
Categories:- Populated places in Gauteng
- Mining communities in South Africa
- Gauteng geography stubs
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