SA gold mining will be dead by 2033 if it fails to adopt
#0183;#32;With costs rising 8% a year, mainly due to labor and electricity, and gold hovering around 1 250 an ounce for the last four years, South Africas gold producers are being forced to examine more efficient ways of extracting the precious metal. South Deep is able to use more heavy machinery because its ore seams are more than 100 meters wide.