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Lily Mine to resume operations after R171million Canadian investment

───   08:48 Sat, 28 May 2016

Lily Mine to resume operations after R171million Canadian investment | News Article
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Barberton - Lily Mine's top executive, Mike McChesney, has confirmed that operations will resume following a R171 million investment from a Canadian company.

Vantage Goldfields, the owners of Lily and Barbrook Mine in the Barberton greenstone district, announced yesterday that they had received $11 million from AfroCan Resources Gold Limited.

The biggest part of this investment will be used to reopen Lily Mine, which closed down in February after a huge cave-in closed the entrance to the 13 levels underground.

It also cost the lives of three mineworkers - Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyerenda - who were on duty in the lamp room, located in a metal container on that fateful morning.

-news24.com


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