They call it Mponeng. In the Sotho language of South Africa, it means “look at me.”
And once you understand what’s happening more than two miles beneath the earth’s surface just outside Johannesburg, you’ll understand why.
This is not just a mine. It’s a subterranean city. A monument to human greed, glory, and madness.
Mponeng is the deepest mine in the world — burrowing down a staggering 2.5 miles into the Earth’s crust. That’s 40 times deeper than the Empire State Building is tall.
Its tunnels, if stretched out, would cover over 240 miles. That’s like driving from Washington, D.C., to New York City… underground. In pitch black. With cave-ins, floods, and rock temperatures that soar to 150°F.
This is where man meets the molten edge of Earth’s fury in the eternal search for gold.
The Manhattan-Sized Madness
To get gold from Mponeng, 4,000 workers go underground every single day.
They travel down at up to 40 miles per hour in double-decker elevators — some descending for an entire hour before reaching their workstations.
Down there, it’s so hot that industrial air conditioners must pump in 6,000 tons of refrigerated air every single day just to keep humans alive.
It’s not just hot — it’s deadly.
Seismic activity is constant. Rock bursts — essentially underground earthquakes — are frequent. Workers wear sensors in case they get trapped. Over 100 deaths were reported at Mponeng in just one decade.
Powering Mponeng consumes nearly 10% of South Africa’s entire energy output.
Let that sink in.
One gold mine.
The size of Manhattan.
Eating up enough electricity to power 400,000 homes.
And what does it give us?
Roughly 10 tons of gold a year.
That’s it.
Ten tons. From a mine that chews through men, mountains, and megawatts like a beast that’s never full.
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Why We Still Do It
So why do we go through all this? Why risk life and limb for just 10 tons of metal?
Because it’s not just metal.
Gold is memory.
Gold is trust.
Gold is currency.
For more than 6,000 years, gold has been the one asset that all civilizations — from the Pharaohs of Egypt to the Federal Reserve — have agreed is real.
It was gold coins that lined the Silk Road. Gold bars that backed national currencies. Gold leaf that adorned sacred temples. Gold that fueled empires, collapsed kingdoms, and forged the modern financial system.
Even today, when paper money can be printed into oblivion, central banks are hoarding gold like it’s the only thing that matters.
Because it is.
The Real Cost of Real Gold
But the way we get gold? It’s broken.
We’ve plundered the richest veins. We’ve scoured the highest peaks and the deepest pits. And now we’re left with mines like Mponeng — where the costs are so staggering, only a few ounces per ton are worth recovering.
We dig deeper. Risk more lives. Spend billions. And destroy entire ecosystems just to get a few bricks of bullion.
The human cost is staggering.
The environmental toll is criminal.
The financial burden is unsustainable.
And yet… we still need the gold.
So what’s the answer?
Enter NatGold: A New Way to Own Gold
Imagine if Mponeng had never needed to be mined.
Imagine if the $8 billion worth of gold already discovered and certified beneath the Earth could be tokenized — verified, digitized, and sold on the blockchain without a single ounce being dug up.
No explosions.
No deaths.
No ecological destruction.
Just gold-backed digital tokens, stored on an immutable ledger, representing certified, in-ground gold that’s already been verified by geologists — the kind Mponeng has in spades.
That’s the model behind NatGold.
And this is the future of gold.
Mponeng Was the Old Way, NatGold Is the New
What Mponeng did with bulldozers, NatGold does with bits and bytes.
Instead of spending $1.4 billion to dig and drill a hole the size of a skyscraper turned upside-down, NatGold gives the world access to already discovered reserves — gold that’s been independently audited, GPS verified, and blockchain certified.
No emissions.
No explosions.
No governments to bribe.
No carbon guilt to carry.
It’s a gold revolution. One that lets you own real gold — without ever destroying the Earth to get it.
And here’s the kicker…
We’ve Already Reserved Over 3,400 Token Spots — and the Sale Hasn’t Even Begun
That’s right. Just from mentions in a handful of editorial letters — like this one — investors have already reserved more than 3,400 NatGold Tokens.
Once we go live, we expect demand to explode — especially as more people wake up to the fact that mines like Mponeng are monuments to a dying model.
Gold will always have value.
But how we access it is changing — right now.
With NatGold, you’re getting in before the floodgates open.
This is like buying Bitcoin in 2009… but with something far more stable. Far more ancient. Far more real.
Reserve Your NatGold Now
Before the world tokenizes the next trillion dollars in gold…
Before Mponeng goes deeper…
Before Wall Street catches on…
Reserve your NatGold Tokens now.
You’ll receive:
- A 10% discount to the launch price
- Priority access when tokens go live
- Early entry into the first truly sustainable gold ecosystem
Because history is about to be rewritten.
And like the miners of Mponeng, you’ll want to be deep in the gold when it happens.
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Join me to lead the herd… and let’s get to the good grass first.
The Prophet of Profit,
Brian Hicks
Check us out on YouTube!Brian is a founding member and President of Angel Publishing. He writes about general investment strategies for Wealth Daily and Energy and Capital. Brian is the managing editor and investment director of R.I.C.H Report (Retired Independent Carefree Healthy), New World Assets and Extreme Opportunities. For more on Brian, take a look at his editor’s page.
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