Three trapped at AngloGold’s Mponeng after earth tremor
The Mponeng gold mine in Carletonville, Gauteng, was AngloGold Ashanti's only South African underground mine. Picture: BUSINESS DAY
Specialist rescue teams, known as proto teams, searched for the three miners during the afternoon and through the night. While a level 2 earthquake is barely noticeable on the surface, at 3.5km underground where rock is under tremendous pressure the consequences are potentially severe. In this case, it led to an incident the industry calls a “fall of ground”. It means rock has either dropped from the top of tunnels and working areas or burst out from the side walls.
In 2019, the number was 51 — the lowest on record, according to mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe — down from 81 the year before, with the gold industry reporting the largest decrease, dropping to 19 from 40. AngloGold in February agreed to a R4,7bn sale of Mponeng, a 4km-deep mine, by far the deepest in the world, its Mine Waste Solutions tailings retreatment business and two mothballed mines to Harmony.The portfolio is changing. When we sell the SA assets, that’s the last ultra-deep, hard-rock underground mine. We move to shallower underground and open pit production. That’s an important transformation,” AngloGold CEO Kelvin Dushnisky said in February.
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