First Uranium Corporation has announced that the notice temporarily suspending operations in the underground workplaces at its Ezulwini Mine has been lifted.
The notice was issued pursuant to section 54 of the Mine Health and Safety Act (South Africa) by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) on March 12, 2011 following a fall of ground, which regrettably claimed the life of one employee.
Accordingly all mining operations, with the exception of the Bord and Pillar section where the fatality occurred, resumed during the night shift on Thursday, March 17, 2011. Mining within the Bord and Pillar section will resume early next week after the retraining of that section’s mining teams, in modified support standards, has been conducted.
