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Virginia

Virginia

Find property for sale in Virginia, a gold mining town located in the Freestate province in South Africa. Situated about 140kms northeast of Bloemfontein, the area is surrounded by some of the largest gold fields in the province and its economy is dominated by the mining industry. The properties to buy in Virginia are primarily commercial farms and smallholdings, although there are plenty of houses and homes for sale in the residential suburbs catering for the various industry employees.

One of the area’s main claims to fame is that it has the deepest pipe mine in the world, as well as the fact that the Sand River once burst its banks and flooded parts of the town in 1988. A slime dam just outside of Virginia burst in 1994 sending a 10m wave of mud through one of the suburbs killing 11 people. Those who buy property here are mostly those employed by the various industries located in t