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Johannesburg - Village Main Reef [JSE:VIL] said on Monday the sit-in that started on July 10 at its Consolidated Murchison antimony and gold mine in Limpopo province had been terminated over the weekend.
This follows a joint call from mine management, the office of the Chief Inspector of Mines, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), unions and the South African Police Services (Saps) for employees who had waged a sit-in at the Monarch Decline Shaft to return to the surface.
The strike had resulted in revenue losses of some R10.5m, with employees losing a total of R2m in wages, the mine said in a statement on Sens.
Village Main said it had engaged the services of an independent mediator to resolve the dispute between the parties.
The strike over share-based payments began on the eve of industry-wide wage talks between gold producers and trade unions.
Limpopo police had been "on alert" after 200 miners on the surface joined the demonstration by 134 workers underground.
Village Main Reef is one of seven gold producers represented by the industry body in the two-yearly wage negotiations that started almost two weeks ago.
Reuters reported that this round of talks had been billed as the toughest since the end of apartheid, with demands for a doubling of basic pay set against collapsing bullion prices and shrinking profit margins.
The talks normally take two months but this year they are expected to drag out because of a vicious union turf war that sparked strikes last year in which producers lost billions of rands of output and some workers were killed.
This follows a joint call from mine management, the office of the Chief Inspector of Mines, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), unions and the South African Police Services (Saps) for employees who had waged a sit-in at the Monarch Decline Shaft to return to the surface.
The strike had resulted in revenue losses of some R10.5m, with employees losing a total of R2m in wages, the mine said in a statement on Sens.
Village Main said it had engaged the services of an independent mediator to resolve the dispute between the parties.
The strike over share-based payments began on the eve of industry-wide wage talks between gold producers and trade unions.
Limpopo police had been "on alert" after 200 miners on the surface joined the demonstration by 134 workers underground.
Village Main Reef is one of seven gold producers represented by the industry body in the two-yearly wage negotiations that started almost two weeks ago.
Reuters reported that this round of talks had been billed as the toughest since the end of apartheid, with demands for a doubling of basic pay set against collapsing bullion prices and shrinking profit margins.
The talks normally take two months but this year they are expected to drag out because of a vicious union turf war that sparked strikes last year in which producers lost billions of rands of output and some workers were killed.
