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The Mponeng gold mine located in the Gauteng province of South Africa, is the deepest operating mine in the world. It was the last underground operation by AngloGold Ashanti in South Africa.
Harmony Gold, South Africa’s biggest gold producer, became the owner and operator of the Mponeng underground mine by acquiring AngloGold Ashanti’s remaining South African assets in October 2020.
Harmony Gold had entered a definitive agreement to acquire the Mponeng mine and Mine Waste Solutions, an independent surface operation, from AngloGold Ashanti for £154m ($200m) in February 2020.
Harmony Gold produced 175,095 ounces (oz) of gold by processing 683,000 tonnes (t) of Mponeng underground ore during the first nine months of its operatorship from October 2020 to June 2021. The company expects to produce up to 250,000oz of gold a year from Mponeng over an estimated remaining mine life of eight years.
The current operating depth at the Mponeng mine ranges from 3.16km to 3.84km, while the future mining is expected to further deepen the shaft bottom to 4.22km below the surface.