Mining firm Sibanye-Stillwater says all employees are protected and have been supplied with meals as they await rescue.
Rescue efforts have been underneath method in South Africa on Friday as greater than 200 miners have been trapped at a gold mine for a second day.
Mining firm Sibanye-Stillwater stated on Thursday that the miners have been trapped after what it known as a “shaft incident” on the Kloof gold mine, one of many firm’s deepest.
It stated that every one the employees have been protected and gathered at an meeting level the place that they had been supplied with meals as efforts have been being made to get them out.
“It was determined that workers ought to stay on the sub-shaft station till it’s protected to proceed to the floor,” the corporate stated.
The overall variety of employees trapped was not instantly clear. Information companies reported that 260 folks have been trapped, whereas an organization spokesperson stated 289 miners have been within the shaft.
The Nationwide Union of Mineworkers, representing the employees on the Kloof mine, stated that they had been trapped for greater than 24 hours as Sibanye-Stillwater continued pushing again its estimated time to retrieve the employees.
“We’re very involved as a result of the mine didn’t even make this incident public till we reported it to the media,” stated NUM spokesman Livhuwani Mammburu.
The mine, positioned 60km (37 miles) west of Johannesburg, is amongst just a few amassing from a number of the world’s deepest gold deposits.
