The Simulacrum is a modern mining facility built on the UJ Campus in Doornfontein with the support of Sibanye-Stillwater. It features a vertical shaft, mine tunnels, stope environments ...
Mining companies back then used the old shaft mining process that involved digging vertical tunnels deep underground and blasting off rocks to reach gold veins. Illegal miners go into these old ...
Just before 4 p.m. that day, first responders received a call claiming that Dorris had fallen down the vertical mine shaft in a remote area of Hamblin Valley in Iron County. "We had nine members ...