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Johannesburg - South African gold producer DRDGold said the No. 5 shaft at its Blyvooruitzicht gold mine would remain shut on Monday after a lightning strike halted production over the weekend.
"This morning's production shift has been cancelled. The plan is for the technicians to work through, get things back to normal and test everything thoroughly," DRDGold's spokesperson James Duncan told Reuters.
"At this point we're hopeful that we will be able to get things back to normal at the start of the night shift tonight ... so the first real production shift, we would hope, would be tomorrow morning."
The mine's two other shafts would continue to operate as normal.
The last of some 167 underground workers who were trapped in the shaft for more than 22 hours during the weekend were safely rescued on Sunday evening.
About 275 people, mainly maintenance and essential services workers, were initially trapped at various levels more than 2 km (1.24 miles) underground when lightning hit two electrical sub-stations causing a total power blackout to the No. 5 shaft.
The shaft is the Blyvooruitzicht mine's biggest producer, and accounted for about half of the operation's output last quarter.
- Reuters