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Ex-Lily Mine workers say Workers' Day has no significance. After 5 years they are still waiting for the bodies of their trapped colleagues.

On 5 February 2016, Lily Mine reported that more than 70 mine workers were trapped underground after a mineshaft collapsed. All were rescued, except for Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyirenda. The three were in a container above ground that plunged into a sinkhole, trapping them underground. Rescue efforts continued for days, but proved futile. An image showing the sinkhole and abandoned buildings. Lily Mine has been under business rescue since the collapse. Former mine owner Vantag...

Search and rescue operations have been halted over safety concerns, but the families of the miners believe government has the capacity to retrieve their remains.

Earlier this week, Deputy Chief Inspector of mines Mthokosi Zondi assured affected families that Vantage Goldfields intended to open the mine in July brining new hopes to surrounding communities and family members.

Officials visit Lily Mine families Bulelwa Ginindza Comments Officials from the Department of Mineral Resources met the families of the three trapped Lily Mine workers and former workers yesterday to update them about the latest developments. Photo by Bulelwa Ginindza. THE Department of Mineral Resources is concerned about the legal cases against mining company, Vantage Goldfields. Department officials and former mine workers visited th...

Another court battle is looming in the drawn-out business rescue process of Mpumalanga’s Lily and Barbrook gold mines after business rescue practitioner, Rob Devereux, was accused of doing a “180-degree turn” on publishing plans in favour of a company that has been waiting on the wings to buy the mines. Arqomanzi appeared likely to acquire the mines from Australian company, Vantage Goldfields (VGO), after making a R250 million offer to Devereux, and becoming the major independent creditor...

MONEYWEB app instead? Australian group Macquarie Metals comes to rescue of Vantage Goldfields An amended business rescue plan will see all creditors paid within three months. But a court action by a competing bidder may derail the best laid plans. 13:40  Image: Supplied Five years after the collapse of a support pillar that took the lives of three workers at Vantage Goldfields’ Lily mine in Mpumalanga, there’s light at the end of the tunnel for the company. The 2016 tragedy brought...

Lily Mine: 5 Years Later and Closing in On Justice Search Polity Note: Search is limited to the most recent 250 articles. To access earlier articles, click Advanced Search and set an earlier date range. To search for a term containing the & symbol, click Advanced Search and use the search headings and/or in first paragraph options. With... Clear Search Sponsored by Sponsored by Today, 5 February 2021, marks the particularly sad occasion of 5 years since the collapse of Lily Mine in Mpumalanga....

Australian mining company Vantage Goldfields (VGO) has thrown a curve ball and frustrated the hopes of reopening two gold mines in Mpumalanga by a company in the forefront of acquiring the business

Abednego Magongo, Harry Mazibuko, Ndumiso Mbandze and Master Mthethwa in the men’s quarters. NATIONAL NEWS - There is a glimmer of hope for ex-Lily and Barbrook mine employees, according to Vantage Goldfields CEO, Mike McChesney. This is nearly four years since the tragedy in which four miners’ bodies were entombed after a shaft collapsed on February 5, 2016. Since then, the mine closed and was placed under business rescue as rescue operations were abandoned. A drawn...