West Driefontein was a South African
gold mining
Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.
Historically, mining gold from Alluvium, alluvial deposits used manual separation processes, such as gold panning. The expansion of gold mining to ores that are not on the surface has led to mor ...
company belonging to the Goldfields Group (now Sibanye Gold).
It lies approximately outside
Carletonville
Carletonville is a town in Gauteng and the seat of the Merafong City Local Municipality in the West Rand District Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, just north of the richest gold-mining area in the world. At 3,749 m, Western Deep Levels ho ...
next to
Blyvooruitsig and
East Driefontein
East Driefontein is a small gold mining town approximately 20 km outside Carletonville, Gauteng
Gauteng ( , ; Sotho-Tswana languages, Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; or ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
Situated on t ...
. It used to be the richest gold mine in the world before it was flooded by water.
References
Populated places in the Merafong City Local Municipality
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