BL Premium reports that a miner died on Saturday in a fall of ground incident at Harmony Gold’s Moab Khotsong mine near Orkney in North West.

The gold producer said in a brief statement on Monday that an in-loco investigation of the rockfall was under way. In 2021, 74 miners died on the job in SA, according to data from the Minerals Council SA (previously called the Chamber of Mines). Fatalities in the sector have fallen since the early 2000s, when about 275 deaths were recorded annually, as directives were introduced to eliminate shaft and winder accidents, preparation for emergencies improved and monitoring was increased.

• Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Nico Gous at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)

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