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It is known that gold is mostly extracted from underground. But have you ever though about how deep mines are and what does it imply? What is the deepest gold mine in the world?

Learn this interesting information from the MD7TRADE article and learn more about gold mines!

Gold mining is the process of extracting gold from the interior of the Earth. It is impossible to give the exact year when the first mines were created by humans, but it is assumed by scientists that they appeared around 7000 years ago or even earlier. Since those times the process of mining developed as any technology does, and humans learned to make deeper mines and to use sophisticated methods to obtain gold from them.

It is known about gold mines the depths of which are around 1100 m, 1300 m and 1500 m. But what is the deepest mine in the world nowadays? In 2013 the deepest one was the Mponeng gold mine located in South Africa, its depth was 3900 m. Now the leadership has gone to the TauTona.

This mine is also located in South Africa, not far from Johannesburg, and its depth is more than 4500 m. Nowadays it belongs to AngloGold Ashanty company, however, at first the mine belonged to another company. At that time its depth was “only” 2000 m.

The title TauTona roots the African language, Setswana. In this African language this word means “great lion”. Indeed, the biggest gold mine in the world provokes the associations with the king of animals.

TauTona started working in 1960s. Up to the present day it is the South African and the world’s largest mine, and also, on of the most important one. Its production here doesn’t stop even if gold prices fall.

TauTona has many tunnels with the total length of around 800 km where around 5600 miners work.

Due to the mine is very deep, sometimes the temperature here reaches 55 °C, which are decreased to around 29°C by cooling systems.

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