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Kalgold is an open-pit mine situated 55 kilometres southwest of Mahikeng in North West Province and located within the Kraaipan Greenstone Belt. Mining takes place from the A Zone pit. Ore mined from the pit is processed at a carbon-in-leach plant located at Kalgold.
Kraaipan is a host community of the Kalgold Greenstone Belt mine operated by the Harmony Mine Company, this opencast mine is situated about 15 kilometres North of the ...
The 2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths occurred in late May and early June 2009 in Free State province, South Africa. At least 82 miners, many from Lesotho , Mozambique and Zimbabwe , died from inhalation of poisonous gasses created by a May 18 fire in the mineshaft.
The South Kalgoorlie Gold Mine is a gold mine located south-west of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The mine is sometimes also referred to as "South Kal Mines - New Celebration", being a merger of the former New Celebration Gold Mine and the Jubilee Gold Mine, which were combined in 2002.
Harmony Gold may refer to: Harmony Gold (mining) , a South African gold mining company Harmony Gold USA , an American real estate developer, film, television, & animation producer, and distributor
At least 31 people are suspected to have died in a methane gas explosion at a disused gold mine in South Africa around the third week of May in 2023. [3] [2] [4] [5] [6]The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) reported late on 22 June 2023 that the miners had died in a mining shaft at the abandoned Virginia mine in Welkom, Free State.
Mining started in 1955 though their subsidiary Winkelhaak Mines Ltd. [3] The Evander mine is currently operating in its 9th shaft and employs around 3,300 people. [4] These operations, now owned by Harmony Gold , mine the Kimberley Reef in the Evander Basin and produced over 16 000 kg of gold from 2008 to 2010.
Number 4A in the Harmony Gold Mine tailings complex failed. The dam was designed in the early 1970s by the mine's metallurgical manager and a representative from the tailings dam contractor. [1] The town of Merriespruit, a 250-house suburb of the Goldfields town of Virginia, was already established when the No. 4 dam was started in 1978. The ...