Operations at Lily Mine to resume after cash injection from Canadian company

28 May 2016 - 15:31
By S’duduzo Dludla
Picture Credit: www.mining-technology.com
Picture Credit: www.mining-technology.com

A major cash investment by a Canadian company will see operations at the Lily Mine resume next month.

Work at the mine in Barberton Mpumalanga came to a standstill in February after one of the shafts caved in.

The cave-in of the shaft trapped Pretty Nkambule‚ Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyerende‚ who have still not been recovered.

The mine’s management said it would receive an investment of R170-million for a two-month period.

But the National Union for Mineworkers says the mine should first recover the three workers.

“This week our deputy president was having a meeting with our structures in Mpumalanga about the situation there‚” said NUM spokesman Livhuwani Mammburu.

“It’s a worrying situation for us because we want those mineworkers to be rescued before they could resume with operations.”