The accident in May 2014 killed 301 people when one of the pits of the Soma mine became engulfed by flames and carbon monoxide gas
While the search continues for one miner after the news of the death of eight others, the minister will visit Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine.
Reports say the bodies of eight miners have been recovered after a fire and rock fall at a gold mine in Jo’burg, while one miner remains missing.
The department of mineral resources has sent condolences to family and friends of the five mineworkers killed during a fire at a Gold Fields shaft.
Susan Shabangu described the mounting death toll in SA’s mines as "carnage", adding there is a link between the pursuit of profits and the body count.
South Africa is looking at revised safety regulations to help tackle rising mine deaths in the world’s top platinum and a major gold producer.
The National Union of Mineworkers is planning protests and a day of mourning to highlight its concerns over mining fatalities.
The National Union of Mineworkers may shut the sector down for a day to protest a recent surge in mining deaths, it was reported on Friday.
Harmony Gold said on Thursday that it had stopped operations at its Joel mine in South Africa after an employee died in an accident.
The death toll from methane gas explosions in a coal mine in Pakistan’s south-western province of Baluchistan rose to 45 on Monday.
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/ 24 January 2011
Anglo Platinum, the world’s top platinum producer, on Monday halted operations at its Thembelani mine after a worker died in an accident.
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/ 20 January 2011
A winch operator died at Harmony Gold Mining Company’s Bambanani mine in the Free State after a ground fall, NUM said on Thursday.
One-hundred-and-twenty-eight mine workers died in 2010, which was a 24% improvement over the previous year, the Chamber of Mines said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 January 2011
One-hundred-and-twenty-eight mine workers died in 2010, Chamber of Mines CEO Bheki Sibiya said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 January 2011
Northam Platinum announced Monday that an employee died in a tramming accident on Sunday morning.
More than 1 000 miners will down tools at the Arnot Exarro coal mine in Mpumalanga to mourn the death of a worker.
Two miners died at Northam Platinum’s Zondereinde mine near Thabazimbi, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Wednesday.
The government will not compromise on mine safety, the Department of Mineral Resources said on Tuesday.
An inquiry into a mine accident in Rustenburg that left five people dead and one critically injured is under way, Aquarius Platinum said on Thursday.
Hopes were fading on Monday of finding alive any of the 58 miners still trapped deep inside Russia’s largest underground coal mine.
Two miners died and eight were rescued, including three injured, following a fall of ground at the Driefontein Gold Fields mine near Carletonville.
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/ 21 November 2008
Parliament on Friday passed new mine-safety laws that enforce stricter penalties and hold mine CEOs criminally liable for deaths.
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/ 12 November 2008
Eleven thousand miners at the Gold Fields Beatrix mine in the Free State will down tools on Thursday as part of a day of mourning, NUM says.
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/ 10 November 2008
Two mine workers died and a third was injured following an accident at an Xstrata coal mine near Witbank, Xstrata Coal said on Monday.
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/ 17 October 2008
Gold Fields said on Friday it had resumed operations at its Kloof mine after the mine was shut down on Tuesday following the death of a worker.
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/ 19 September 2008
AngloGold Ashanti said on Friday it had closed part of its Savuka operation after a worker was killed in an accident.
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/ 17 September 2008
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday reported a fatality at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg operations.
A shaft at Anglo Platinum’s second-biggest mine remained shut a week after a worker died, and the mine said it was in talks with authorities.
South African gold miner Gold Fields confirmed on Thursday that two employees have been killed at the group’s Kloof mine west of Johannesburg.