Mponeng Mine is one of the deepest mines in the world. Its depth is 3777 m (according to other sources, it reaches 4 km [1] ). The main ore mined is gold . Located near Johannesburg in the Republic of South Africa . In the future, gold miners intend to dig it even deeper. The mine is owned by Anglogold Ashanti.
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It is known that in 2002 , scientists found in its depths a completely isolated strain of the extremophile bacterium [2] , which supported vital activity due to radioactive ores [3] .