BusinessLive reports that Sibanye-Stillwater indicated on Wednesday that it had safely returned 1,800 miners to surface at its Thembelani platinum mine after the shaft was closed due to an accident.
Railway lines dropped down a shaft around 1pm on Tuesday at the platinum mine near Rustenburg prevented 1,800 workers from coming up from underground for hours. An inspection of the shaft showed it was safe to hoist people, and work to return all of the miners to the surface and work was completed just after midnight. Employees underground completing their day shift had been kept near the shaft for when it re-opened. No one was hurt in the incident.
- Read the full original of Allan Seccombe’s report in the above regard at BusinessLive
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