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 [...]
Murray & Roberts on Monday confirmed that their drill will breakthrough to the trapped Chilean miners in the next nine days. The drill is one of three that make up the intensive rescue effort underway to rescue the trapped men, who have been underground since the beginning of August when a main access tunnel collapsed. [...]
Rescue efforts are still underway to find one missing miner following yesterday’s seismic event at Bambanani mine in Welkom in the Free State where eight employees were trapped. An update report by a senior inspector dispatched by the Department of Mineral Resources indicates that five miners sustained minor injuries, while one of them sustained serious [...]
Four miners are trapped underground at Harmony Gold’s Bambanani Mine in the Free State following an earth tremor, the mineral resources department said on Monday. Eight miners were initially trapped, but four, who sustained minor injuries, were rescued following the 2.1 magnitude tremor, spokesperson Zingaphi Jakuja said. Operations to get the four other miners out [...]
A man has died in an accident at AngloGold Ashanti’s Kopanang mine in the North West, the mining company said on Monday. “Jonase Serame Mosebo… sustained injuries during a fall of ground accident, essentially it was a rock fall,” said spokesperson for AngloGold Ashanti Joanne Jones. The incident took place on the Saturday evening shift. [...]
An illegal miner was gunned down at the mine owned by President Jacob Zuma’s nephew, Khulubuse Zuma, and by Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Zondwa Mandela, on Saturday night. This brings to five the number of miners killed at the mine in just over a month. The killing happened shortly before 10pm on Saturday at the Grootvlei [...]
The first of three rescue drills on Friday reached 33 Chilean miners trapped for six weeks 0.70 kilometres underground, but it will still take weeks to widen the shaft enough to extract the men. The miners greeted the arrival of the drillhead with an exhilarated message of thanks to their companions on the surface who [...]
South Africa’s Mines Rescue team has offered its services to the government of Chile to help free 33 mine workers who have already been trapped in the San Jose gold and copper mine in Copiapo for over two weeks following a rock fall. A shaft with a diameter of 15cm was drilled on Sunday to [...]
Chilean miners who survived 18 days after a cave-in received hydration gel and medication through a narrow drill hole on Monday, but officials said it could be months before the men are freed. In what relatives called a miracle, the miners on Sunday tied a note to a perforation drill that had bored a shaft [...]
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