Another mining disaster happened 10 January in South Africa at AngloGold Ashanti’s TauTona gold mine near Carletonville, just outside of Johannesburg.

A rock slide caused by an earth tremor killed three workers, and injured five others, two of them seriously. An investigation into the accident is being jointly conducted by the Ministry of Minerals and Energy, ICEM affiliate National Union of Mineworkers, and AngloGold Ashanti South African Mines.

A similar earth tremor at the TauTona Mine last July killed two miners, while a rock fall at AngloGold’s Mponeny Mine in South Africa in October also killed two miners.