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Fatality halts Bootu Creek

26th August 2019

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

     

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PERTH (miningweekly.com)  - ASX-listed OM Holdings was on Saturday forced to suspend operations at its Bootu Creek manganese mine, in the Northern Territory, following a fatality at the operation.

A 59-year-old mining employee was fatally injured over the weekend, during a "substantial wall failure" at the mine, with the Northern Territory police saying that the employee was engulfed under a "significant volume of soil and rock".

OM Holdings on Monday said that the company was working closely with the police, the Department of Primary Industry and Resources, and WorkSafe to conduct a full investigation into the accident.

The miner noted that while some operations at the mine remained suspended, others have restarted.

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