21 People Have Died at One Company’s Gold Mines This Year
- Harmony Gold, the second-highest, has reported 6 fatalities
- Country is on pace for back-to-back increase in mine deaths
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Sibanye Gold Ltd. accounts for nearly half of the 47 people killed at South African mines in 2018, making this the deadliest six months in the company’s five-year history.
The largest producer of South African gold has had 21 fatalities, more than three times the smaller Harmony Gold Co. with 6 deaths, and faces growing outrage from the country’s powerful labor unions.