Miners walk past the Gold Fields Driefontein mine

AFP Monday January 28, 01:52 PM
  • Email page
  • IM Page
  • Blog this on Yahoo! 360!
  • Print page
Miners walk past the Gold Fields Driefontein mine in Carletonville, near Johannesburg, in 2005. De Beers and the country's three main gold mining companies -- Gold Fields, Harmony and AngloGold Ashanti -- were all forced to halt production on Friday after Eskom switched off their power supplies. Miners walk past the Gold Fields Driefontein mine in Carletonville, near Johannesburg, in 2005. De Beers and the country's three main gold mining companies -- Gold Fields, Harmony and AngloGold Ashanti -- were all forced to halt production on Friday after Eskom switched off their power supplies.

AFP