1990 |
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Western Areas Gold Mining Company Limited transferred land and mineral rights to South Deep Exploration Company Limited. |
1995 |
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Western Areas Gold Mining Company Limited (WA) and South Deep Exploration Company Limited merged. Sinking of Twin Shaft and access development from South Shaft commenced. |
1999 |
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Placer Dome/WA (PDWA) joint venture was formed and in 2000 the mine was renamed – South Deep Gold Mine. |
2002 |
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New South Deep gold plant commissioned and the South Shaft plant decommissioned. Sinking of the main shaft was completed and in 2004 the Twin Shaft system was commissioned. |
2006/07 |
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Barrick Gold Corporation acquired a majority interest in Placer Dome Inc. Gold Fields Limited (GFI) acquired Barrick's 50% JV interest in the PDWA JV and in 2007, GFI acquired all remaining WAL shares and consequently owns 100% of South Deep gold mine. |
2008/09 |
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Stopped all conventional mining and low profile mechanised destress mining started in 2009. |
2010 |
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New-order mining right granted, with the addition of the contiguous area known as Uncle Harry's. |
2011 |
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Establishment of Newshelf 899 (Pty) Limited (Newshelf), which holds a 100% interest in South Deep gold mine. Newshelf is a 90% subsidiary of Gold Fields Limited and the remaining 10% is held by outside shareholders as part of the BEE transaction. |
2017 |
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High profile destress method successfully implemented. Rebase plan initiated. |