Mine Accidents and Disasters | Department of Mineral Resources
62 Fatalities were reported on 31 of August 1987 as a result of a methane gas explosion at the St Helena Gold mine in Welkom, Free State, that caused a conveyance in the shaft to plunge 1.4km to the bottom of the mine shaft. 57 Miners were killed on 12 September 1944 at the Hlobane Colliery near Vryheid, KwaZulu-Natal. Insufficient ventilation ...
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