The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has expressed concern around an incident that happened at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Kroondal mine, in Rustenburg, on Monday, which required 378 mineworkers being kept underground for safety reasons.
Sibanye on Tuesday confirmed to Mining Weekly that a UV 72 machine – a mechanised machine used to transport workers and materials underground – had caught fire on Monday morning and that the workers had to be kept in underground refuge bays until it was deemed safe to exit.