A century later, SA remains number one on gold grades

AngloGold Ashanti's TauTona, Moab Khotsong and Savuka South African mines take up spots two to four with grades between 18.96g/t and 23g/t.

Emphasising the need to harness the necessary technological advancement for deep level mining, Sebag said that, while there still are serious reservations relating to the portion of delineated resources that can actually be extracted in the South African deposits, "we felt that they warranted inclusion in order to provide readers with an all-encompassing database".

Interestingly, in the list of undeveloped deposits over 1 million oz owned by independent juniors the only SA deposits identified were those owned by Gold One, The Citizen says.

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