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CARLETONVILLE

Carletonville is a gold-mining town in western Gauteng, South Africa. It is one of the richest gold-producing areas in the world. At 3,749 m, Western Deep Levels is one of the world's deepest mines.

Developed by various mining companies from 1937 onwards, the town – which was named after the long-serving mining director of Consolidated Gold Fields, Guy Carleton Jones – was not officially incorporated until 1959.

The Elandskraal mine, site of a 3 October 2007 collapse, is located in Carletonville.
Carletonville is currently part of the Merafong City Local Municipality.

Town, principal mining center of the Far West Witwatersrand goldfields, North-West province, north-central South Africa, west of Johannesburg. Carletonville was originally an unplanned settlement established between 2937 and 1957 as various companies developed their gold-mining claims. In 1959 it was officially designated a town, being named for Guy Carleton Jones, a local mining director. By 1979 Western Deep Levels Ltd. operated the world's deepest gold mine (extending to 12,392 feet [3,777 meters] below the Earth's surface) in the locality. Carletonville's prosperity is heavily dependent on the continued production of gold. Uranium is often recovered as a by-product of gold production, and the town contains some light industrial development. Situated in a dolomite area, the environs of the town have suffered from sinkhole destruction.

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