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| | Springs (city, South Africa) - MSN Encarta |
 | | Springs (city, South Africa), city in northeastern South Africa, in Gauteng Province, on a rocky uplift called the Witwatersrand, near Johannesburg. |
 | | Including two industrial townships and several residential suburbs, it is a gold-mining center of the East Rand district and has plants producing steel, processed uranium, mining and printing machinery, motors and electrical products, canned foods, bicycles, paper, and glass. |
 | | Originating in the 1880s as a mining settlement exploiting surrounding coalfields, Springs became a township in 1903. |
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