Modderfontein Gold Mine is a small to medium mining operation located in the Witwatersrand Basin, near Benoni 22km east of Johannesburg, South Africa’s commercial capital. The mine has been built to extract gold deposits in South Africa.

The current Life-of-Mine (LOM) is estimated to be 18 years (2041).The mine has been acquired from Gold One International with a view to develop it as a medium enterprise development project. There have been a number of challenges along the way including opening up the access to the orebody and setting up a new CIL plant. All the key required infrastructure is now in place to ensure that the mine operates as a safe, low-cost and profitable gold mine and we are now ramping up our production to a steady state.

We employ almost 500 people directly, either as full-time employees or contractors. We value our partnership with organised labour and work closely with them in translating our purpose, vision and aspirations.

We know that our people shoulder huge responsibilities too; each employee on average plays an important role as a breadwinner from between 5 and 10 people. Moreover, there are three host communities with a collective population of more than 10,000 people, situated in close proximity of our mine, all of which rely to some degree on our operation.

In addition to the Mining Charter’s Social and Labour Plan, we seek to address the well-being of our communities in terms of education, skills development, poverty-alleviation and empowerment, through two independently governed trusts – the South Deep Community Trust and the South Deep Education Trust.