At the bottom of the world’s deepest gold mine, there is a 30-inch seam of gold called the Ventersdorp Contact Reef. This is what the miners came for, but soon they will have to dig even deeper.

AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng gold mine, located south-west of Johannesburg in South Africa, is currently the deepest mine in the world. The operating depth at Mponeng mine ranged from between 3 ...

At such staggering depth, Mponeng takes the title of world's deepest mine from ground level and further aims to deepen the mine beyond 2.4 miles in order to reach more reserves. When travelling ...

The mine is famously the deepest in the world, as it stretches more than four kilometres (2.5 miles) below ground. The depth translates to approximately 3,891 metres below the datum and 2,062 ...

The deepest gold mine in the world is Mponeng, a 2.5-mile hole in the ground in South Africa. A whole underground city—lightless and lawless—lives inside the mine.

Exploring a private mine, we unearthed rare and vibrant amethyst crystals embedded deep within the rock formations. This ...

AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine (which for most of its life went by the much more mundane moniker of Western Deep Levels No. 1) in South Africa is a superlative mine in many ways (see below).