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Windows Live® Search Results Germiston, city, northeastern South Africa, in Gauteng Province, near Johannesburg. It is an important rail hub and industrial center situated in the heart of the Witwatersrand, the country's rich gold-mining and manufacturing region. Gold is refined, and machinery, chemicals, mining explosives, fabricated steel, textiles, and railroad equipment are manufactured. Germiston grew rapidly after gold-mining operations began on the Witwatersrand in the 1880s. Population (1996) 164,252.
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