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260 miners stuck underground after 'incident' at S.African shaft
260 miners stuck underground after 'incident' at S.African shaft
Economy
by  AFP

Damage to a mine shaft kept 260 miners stuck in a gold mine outside Johannesburg overnight, the mine manager and union said Friday. Mining employs hundreds of thousands of people in South Africa -- the biggest exporter of platinum and a major exporter of gold, diamonds, coal and other raw materials -- and accidents are common.