Deep Thinking: Shaft Design and Safety for a New Generation of Mines

Meanwhile, in South Africa, Shaft Sinkers has been working on a shaft-development contract for Royal Bafokeng Platinum at its Styldrift mine since 2010. This involves a 740-m-deep (2,425-ft), 10.5-m-diameter main shaft and a 705-m-deep, 6.5-m-diameter service shaft. ... Cementation reports that in recent years it has completed two major shaft ...

Desperate Rescue Efforts Underway as Hundreds of Illegal …

Volunteer rescuers sit by the opening of a gold mine shaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa, Friday, November 15, 2024 [Denis Farrell/AP Photo] …

4,000 miners cut off from supplies in underground standoff …

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an …

Families Gather at South African Mine Shaft Where …

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site on Friday in the ...

South African police in standoff with hundreds of illegal …

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South Africa on Friday in the hope of their loved ones emerging from the hole ...

Families gather at South African mine shaft where …

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site on Friday in the ...

Kloof | Gold Operations

In 1892, Gold Fields of South Africa Limited was renamed Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa to mine the deep-level gold deposit of the Witwatersrand. Geophysical prospecting work conducted in the 1930's led to the drilling and …

South Deep Gold Mine, Gauteng Province, South Africa

South Africa's South Deep Gold Mine is the second largest gold mine and the seventh deepest mine in the world. Image courtesy of Gold Fields. ... It operates a gold mine accessed through two shaft systems, including the 2,995m-deep twin-shaft complex and the South Shaft complex. The mine was further explored and categorised into four areas ...

Evander Mines' 7 Shaft – Egoli project, South Africa – update

The Egoli project is a standalone underground operation that will use existing mining and metallurgical infrastructure, including Evander Mines' 7 Shaft's hoisting systems and processing ...

Families gather at South African mine shaft where …

By Thando Hlophe STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site ...

Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South …

According to SAFTU, South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners, known locally as "zama zamas" with most of the minerals derived from artisanal mining "sold to the …

Mine shaft south africa Stock Photos and Images

AN INCLINE SHAFT IN THE SIMMER AND JACK MINE, 800 FEET UNDERGROUND. from the Article THE GOLD MINES OF THE WITWATERSRAND, SOUTH AFRICA. By John Hays Hammond.

Elevator plummets at a platinum mine in South Africa, …

This is an undated photograph of Impala Platinum mine shaft 11, provided by Implats on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, near Rustenburg, South Africa. An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday.

South Africa's illegal gold miners are locked in an …

This aerial view shows an open mine shaft where artisanal miners get access to the mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, where there are believed to be hundreds of clandestine …

Families gather at South African mine shaft where …

Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South Africa on Friday in the hope of their loved ones emerging from the hole ...

Mponeng Mine | South Africa | Underground

Mponeng is the deepest level shaft in the world, with a depth of 3 891 metres below datum and 2 062 metres below sea level. The mine, which began producing in 1986, is near the town of Carletonville, some 90km south-west of …

South Africa's illegal gold miners are locked in an …

In South Africa, workers at illegal gold mines like these are known as "zama-zamas," meaning "one who takes a chance" in the Zulu language. Over the past several weeks, the …

Families Gather at South African Mine Shaft Where …

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the …

South Africa's government won't help the illegal miners …

Illegal mining remains common in South Africa's old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any possible remaining deposits. The illegal miners are often from …

Court orders South Africa police to end mine stand-off | CNN

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners and allow emergency workers to gain access to a shaft where hundreds are believed to be holed up.

South Africa police vow to arrest illegal miners at Stilfontein …

South African police say they will continue to arrest any illegal miners who emerge from a disused gold mine where hundreds, possibly thousands, of people are in hiding. This follows a court order ...

Miners holed up in abandoned South Africa shaft 'starving'

Miners at an abandoned South African mining shaft are starving due to police limiting supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be stuck underground, according to a community leader ...

South Africa police force 540 illegal miners from abandoned shaft

Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a ...

Zama Zamas test South African government's promise to …

Zama Zamas test South African government's promise to crack down on illegal mining South African police have been in a stand off outside an abandoned gold mine with hundreds of illegal miners who ...

Deadly Mine Accident Highlights Dangers of South Africa's …

JOHANNESBURG—An industrial elevator that plunged some 650 feet down a decades-old shaft killed 11 miners and injured 75 others at South Africa's largest platinum mine, the mine's owner ...

South Africa: The Violent Underworld of Stilfontein's Zama …

South Africa's illicit gold trade is lucrative and controlled by gangs . Late on Sunday night, 14 zama zamas surfaced from deep underground at a disused mine in Stilfontein, where a major ...

Our mine

Mining is scattered over a large area, which was originally mined using conventional tabular mining. Current Mine is accessed from three active levels—90, 93 and 95 access levels — via both South and Twin shafts. North of Wrench, which is directly south and down-dip of Current Mine, is accessed from Twin shafts. The wrench refers to the ...

Families gather at South African mine shaft where …

STILFONTEIN, South Africa - Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site on Friday in the hope that ...

Impala Platinum mine accident in South Africa kills 11

An accident at a platinum mine in South Africa has killed 11 workers and injured 75, the mine's operator says. Impala Platinum chief executive Nico Muller described it as the "darkest day" in the ...

Families gather at South African mine shaft where …

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited outside the site on Friday in the hope that their loved ones would ...