A red-hot bar of gold slowly cools after being removed from an ingot mold that was in an oven at a Johannesburg gold mine in South Africa.

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A red-hot bar of gold slowly cools after being removed from an ingot mold that was in an oven at a Johannesburg gold mine in South Africa. That was the world's major gold-producing country until 2007 when it was superseded by China.

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Size: 3430px × 4988px
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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