None hurt as trapped miners begin to surface at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Kloof mine
There was ‘an incident at Kloof 7 shaft’ at Kloof gold mine at about 10pm on Thursday night
23 May 2025 - 10:45
UPDATED 23 May 2025 - 19:55
None of the 260 miners stuck underground following an accident at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine have been injured or killed, a senior union official said on Friday, as the company said 79 had been brought to the surface.
The miners were stuck underground after the hoist system used to access a shaft at the Kloof gold mine — one of Sibanye’s deepest, situated about 60 km west of Johannesburg — was damaged in an accident on Thursday...
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