What are the largest gold mines in South Africa?
Mponeng is also the deepest mine in the world, reaching almost four kilometres below the Earth’s surface. The mine, which was commissioned for gold production in 1986, produced 405,000oz of the precious metal in 2012 and uses a sequential grid mining method. East Rand. The 125-year-old East Rand gold mine closed in 2008 after averaging 43m oz ...