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TauTona Mine
The TauTona Mine or Western Deep No.3 Shaft, is a gold mine in South Africa. At approximately deep, it is home to the world's deepest mining operations, rivalled only by the Mponeng gold mine.
The mine is one of the three Western Deep Levels mines of the West Wits gold field west of Johannesburg. The mine is near the town of Carletonville. TauTona neighbours the Mponeng and Savuka mines, and TauTona and Savuka share processing facilities. All three are owned by AngloGold Ashanti. The mine
Africa, which are currently working at depths exceeding . There are plans to extend Mponeng mine, a sister mine to TauTona, down to in the coming years.
- This region is also the location of the harshest conditions for hard rock mining, with air temperatures of up to . However, massive refrigeration plants are used to bring the temperature down to around .
- The deepest inactive hard rock mine in North America is the Empire mine in Grass Valley California. Closed in 1956 the main shaft had reached a depth