<P> East Rand Proprietary Mines ( ERPM ) is a 120 - year - old underground gold mining operation on the Witwatersrand Basin at Boksburg , to the east of Johannesburg . The mine employed 2,740 people . It was the deepest mine in the world until 2008 at 3,585 metres depth , slightly more than the TauTona mine , also in South Africa , which was 3,581 metres at the time ( in 2008 the TauTona mine completed a digging project that extended the depth of the mine by several hundred metres . ) </P>
<P> East Rand Proprietary Mines ( ERPM ) is a 120 - year - old underground gold mining operation on the Witwatersrand Basin at Boksburg , to the east of Johannesburg . The mine employed 2,740 people . It was the deepest mine in the world until 2008 at 3,585 metres depth , slightly more than the TauTona mine , also in South Africa , which was 3,581 metres at the time ( in 2008 the TauTona mine completed a digging project that extended the depth of the mine by several hundred metres . ) </P>
when did the expansion of the gold mines take place in the east rand
when did the expansion of the gold mines take place in the east rand
2008
2008