Mining firm Sibanye-Stillwater says all staff are secure and have been supplied with meals as they await rescue.
Rescue efforts had been below means in South Africa on Friday as greater than 200 miners had been trapped at a gold mine for a second day.
Mining firm Sibanye-Stillwater stated on Thursday that the miners had 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 had been secure and gathered at an meeting level the place that they had been supplied with meals as efforts had been being made to get them out.
“It was determined that workers ought to stay on the sub-shaft station till it’s secure to proceed to the floor,” the corporate stated.
The overall variety of staff trapped was not instantly clear. Information companies reported that 260 folks had been trapped, whereas an organization spokesperson stated 289 miners had 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, situated 60km (37 miles) west of Johannesburg, is amongst a number of gathering from a number of the world’s deepest gold deposits.
