Some 128 mine workers died in 2010, Chamber of Mines CEO Bheki Sibiya said on Tuesday. “We are very sad about the 128 mine workers who lost their lives in 2010,” he told media in Johannesburg. However it’s the best annual improvement since 2003 despite deeper mines and the slow progress towards the culture of [...]
Sasol Synfuels shut down a portion of its Secunda operations for three weeks in what it said was the biggest shutdown in the world. “With approximately 14,500 additional workers employed and over 150,000 activities completed, the Secunda shutdown is regarded as the biggest of its kind in the world,” the petrochemical company said in a [...]
Three mineworkers died in separate accidents in the past two days, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Friday. One worker died on Friday morning at Impala Platinum in Rustenburg, North West. “The worker died after inhaling noxious gases in an old disused working place which the mine had planned to use as a [...]
A worker died in an accident at Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine in Carletonville on Wednesday, the company said. “The accident occurred at approximately 22:20 last night (Wednesday) when the rigging crews were busy moving equipment in the shaft,” the company said in a statement on Thursday. “Hoisting operations have temporarily been stopped until such time [...]
China said on Tuesday that two Chinese coal mine managers who were arrested in Zambia for allegedly shooting 12 local workers had hurt the Zambians “mistakenly”. The two Chinese nationals have been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting randomly at the Zambian miners after they protested poor working conditions at their Chinese-run mine on [...]
South Africa’s largest union said on Wednesday the government should enact new legislation to compel mining companies to uphold higher safety standards and prevent avoidable mine accidents and deaths. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said the government should draw lessons from Chile’s ongoing incident; in which miners were trapped underground for 69 days in [...]
The South African Chamber of Mines on Wednesday joined the world in expressing relief and delight at progress made in rescuing 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for over two months. So far eight of the 33 miners have been brought to the surface safely. The rest of the men are waiting anxiously some 700 metres [...]
The engineer leading Chilean rescue efforts says his team has successfully tested a rescue capsule nearly all the way down to where 33 miners are trapped. Andres Sougarett says the empty capsule descended 610m – just 14m short of the chamber where the miners have been trapped since an August 5 collapse. He said all [...]
Chilean rescuers finished drilling an escape shaft for 33 miners trapped deep underground after a cave-in over two months ago, triggering cheers and tears from relatives on the surface. Rescue workers jumped for joy as the drill pushed through the last inches (centimetres) of a nearly 2050 foot-long (625 metre) shaft they have drilled down [...]
North West mines the most dangerous Mining fatalities in the first nine months of 2010 dropped by about 26% compared to the same period in 2009, the trade union Solidarity said today. The number of mining fatalities reached 97 this week after a fatal accident at Simmers & Jack’s Tau Lekoa mine near Klerksdorp last [...]
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