South Africa: Search for Missing Miners a Never-Ending Mission – Union
The
search is still continuing for the three mine workers who have been
trapped underground at Lily Mine in Louisville, outside Barberton, since
Friday last week.
John Sibiya, the
Mpumalanga secretary for the Association for Mineworkers and
Construction Union, said there had been no new developments since rescue
teams found a tyre near the container.
"I don't want to
lie to you, the search continues. The big challenges are the big rocks
that build up every time we make a blast. The more we try to blast those
rocks, the rocks on the surface pile up below. It's just a never-ending
mission," Sibiya said.
Sibiya told News24
on Thursday that the tyre provided a glimmer of hope of finding the
three, but there were still rocks blocking the way.
New technology is being used to loosen a huge rock weighing between 20 tons and 30 tons that is hampering the rescue mission.
Yvonne Mnisi,
Pretty Mabuza and Solomon Nyarenda were in a lamp room that was housed
in a container near the entrance to the mine when a central pillar of
ore, called a crown pillar, collapsed last Friday. The container was
swallowed up in a sinkhole as big as a rugby field.
Seventy-six miners were rescued after the collapse.
Mineral Resources
Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said he would return to the mine on Saturday to
get a progress report on the rescue operation.
Source: News24
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