All 1,800 Trapped Sibanye Miners Are Rescued, Government Says
This photo taken on Feb. 1, 2018 in Theunissen shows the Sibanye Beatrix gold mineshaft, where miners were trapped underground following a power failure.
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All 1,800 workers who had been trapped at a Sibanye Gold Ltd. underground platinum mine in South Africa have been brought to the surface, the Department of Mineral Resources said in a tweet.
Efforts had been under way to hoist up those remaining after an accident had blocked a shaft used to transport miners, James Wellsted, Sibanye’s spokesman, said earlier in the evening. The company had been trying to bring them to the surface since 2 p.m. local time.