This South African mining house was founded in 1893 by Adolf Goerz, a young German mining engineer who had come to South Africa in search of gold five years earlier. Its early mines included East Geduld and Modderfontein Deep Levels, and then, in the 1950s, the four mines of the Evander field east of Johannesburg, and St Helena in the Orange Free State. The group merged with General Mining and Finance Corporation in 1980 to form Gencor.