Montreal: A total of 34 employees performing maintenance on a Canadian potash mine have been trapped for approximately 24 hours after the breakdown of a service shaft, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
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The workers “have been safely underground and on stand-down since yesterday afternoon,” said Will Tigley of Saskatoon-based fertilizer firm Nutrien.
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The incident occurred during summer maintenance at the company’s Cory mine, located southwest of Saskatoon, the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan, in the Canada’s central grassland region.
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The miners are stuck at the bottom of the mine approximately one kilometre underground.
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“I can just confirm that the service shaft stopped operating,’ Tigley said.
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“It’s not really a rescue operation. It’s more of just getting the shafts operating again in a safe and practical manner and our teams on site are working on that.”
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