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2 SOUTH DEEP NEAR JOHANNESBURG , SOUTH AFRICA

Located near the eighth largest gold mine in the world , South Deep contains an estimated 81.4mn ounces of gold and mining began at South Deep in 1961 ; Gold Fields Limited acquired the mining operations in 2006 .

At almost 3,000 meters below the surface , South Deep also ranks seventh on the list of deepest mines in the world and produced 290,000 ounces of gold in 2016 ; a 47 % increase in production over the previous year . Gold Fields expects to increase gold production to 500,000 ounces per year by 2023 .

www . goldfields . co . za / south-africa-region . php

28 October 2017