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Deepest mine
The Saudi Gazette Published in The Saudi Gazette on 23 - 07 - 2008


The deepest mine in the world is the East Rand mine, which goes to a depth of about 3,585 meters, slightly deeper than TauTona mine, also in South Africa, at 3581 meters. The mine is a 100-year-old underground gold mining operation on the Witwatersrand Basin at Boksburg, to the east of Johannesburg. It employs 2740 people. __

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