Mponeng in South Africa is the world's deepest gold mine. The Kola Superdeep Borehole is only 9 inches wide. Russian scientists have been drilling it since 1970. It's now deeper than the deepest ...

Johannesburg was discovered in 1886, following the discovery of the main Witwatersrand gold reef, which today houses the world's deepest mine. The Witwatersrand, known locally as the Rand and ...

In early 2023, the mine signed a deal to use only clean electricity, generated entirely by wind and nuclear power.

This is life at Newmont's Tanami mine — a remote fly-in fly-out (FIFO) site on Warlpiri country, more than 500 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, where tonnes of gold are hauled from deep ...

Mponeng in South Africa is the world's deepest gold mine. The Kola Superdeep Borehole is only 9 inches wide. Russian scientists have been drilling it since 1970. It's now deeper than the deepest ...