Officials have revealed that No less than 31 people died in a methane explosion at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa last month.
The incident occurred on May 18 in a ventilation shaft at the Virginia gold mine outside Welkom, some 260 kilometers from Johannesburg.
Although details are sketchy, South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) determined that methane levels were abnormally high in the ventilation shaft of the mine and an explosion had occurred killing the likely illegal miners on site.
