Gold Fields' Miners To Down Tools After Deaths

Miners at the KDC West mine operated by Gold Fields, the world's fourth-largest gold miner, will stay off work on Tuesday to honour five workers killed last weekend, the National Union of Mine Workers said on Monday.

The miners died in a fire as they worked underground on June 30. The company closed the entire mine after the fire but has since opened some sections of the operation.

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The company has yet to open the shaft where the incident occurred, because the fire there has not been extinguished, it said in a statement on Monday.

The entire KDC operation produces just over 1 million ounces a year, or about 31 percent of group production.