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SA’s oldest gold mine shifts to refrigerated cooling as it reaches greater depths

BREEZE OF CHANGE

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A cool breeze of change has swept over South Africa’s oldest listed gold mine – the Barberton gold mine, in Mpumalanga – where a refrigerated cooling system has been installed to improve underground conditions as the mine reaches deeper depths where ambient air temperatures get hotter.
 
 
 
 
 

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