Brakpan Property | Johannesburg

The mining that takes place in Brakpan is largely organized around gold and uranium production.  The town originated from a small farm called Weltevreden, which housed a brackish pan and this is where the area’s unusual name stems from.  It was near here that the first coal settlement was established after a seam was discovered in 1888.  The first two coal mining shafts were sunk in 1905 and the various mining activities have supported the town ever since.