A minimum of 20 staff of mining big De Beers have been killed in a street accident in South Africa, native officers mentioned Sunday 17 September 2023.
The bus concerned was ferrying employees from the Venetia mine, one of many greatest diamond mines within the nation, mentioned a transport official in Limpopo province, within the north of the nation.fafp
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The bus collided with a lorry
“The bus got here into collision with a lorry,” mentioned Vongani Chauke. Chauke advised AFP the accident occurred at round 1600 GMT, some 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the mine, on the village of Musian on the border with Zimbabwe.
The reason for the accident has not been established. South Africa has some of the developed street networks on the continent but in addition has one of many worst street security information.
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The Venetia mine, which lies close to the borders with Botswana and Zimbabwe, has been run by the De Beers group for greater than 30 years.
It accounts for greater than 40 per cent of the nation’s annual diamond manufacturing, using greater than 4,300 employees, together with many native folks.
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Did the accidents trigger loss to the mine?
It was as soon as the nation’s largest open-cast mine earlier than De Beers invested $2 billion in a significant underground venture to entry the much less simply out there diamonds. The group goals to provide 4 million carats a 12 months.
In July, De Beers introduced the beginning of underground diamond manufacturing from the brand new seams opened beneath the open-cast mine.
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