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On 13 January 2025, months after the siege began, South African authorities, led by the Department of Mineral Resources, [8] began a court-ordered [3] rescue operation in the mine. A metal cage and lift system was used to recover survivors and deceased miners from a shaft more than 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) underground. [1]
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from a mining shaft this week, and more are believed to remain underground.
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 in South Africa was once the main driving force [1] behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. [2] Large-scale and profitable mining started with the discovery of a diamond on the banks of the Orange River in 1867 by Erasmus Jacobs and the subsequent discovery of the Kimberley pipes a few years later.
The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator has risen to 13 people after a worker died at a hospital, the mine operator said Monday. Impala Platinum ...
May 10, 1995: Vaal Reefs mining disaster, South Africa; a locomotive fell down a lift shaft and landed on a cage, causing the deaths of 104 people. March 24, 1996: Marcopper mining disaster, occurred in the island province of Marinduque, Philippines. A year after the Republic Act No. 7942, or also known as "The Philippine Mining Act of 1995" is ...
Mining contributed nearly 60% of South Africa exports, amounting to about $30 billion in the first half of 2023, according to the South African Revenue Service.
Pages in category "Mining disasters in South Africa" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... 2009 Harmony Gold mine deaths; I.