Workers help evacuate the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in the remote Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: AP
Workers help evacuate the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in the remote Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: AP
Workers help evacuate the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in the remote Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: Reuters
Soldiers watch the recovery operation of the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: AP
Bystanders watch as workers help evacuate the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in the remote Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: Reuters
Workers help evacuate the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in the remote Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: AP
Workers help evacuate the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in the remote Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: AP
Illegal miners pan for gold while nearby, rescuers work to recover the bodies of unauthorised miners from a pit mine which collapsed the previous evening, killing at least seven, on the grounds of a gold mining concession operated by multinational joint venture Surgold, in the remote Sipaliwini district, some 150 kilometers southeast of Suriname's capital Paramaribo. "Apparently, miners not associated with our exploration activities had been working at the foot of a 10-meter wall in the area when the slide occurred," said Esteban Crespo, Surgold's representative in Suriname. Photo: AP
Published Nov 23, 2010
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Seven men were killed and two others were seriously injured when the sand walls of a gold mine collapsed in Suriname, police in the former Dutch colony. Police inspector Bertrand Riedewald said the accident occurred when a mudslide eroded the open pit's 20-meter walls and buried the illegal miners, who were mainly from the country's Maroon indigenous community.
The mine at Money Hill, some 150 kilometers southeast of the capital Paramaribo, belongs to the Surgold concession, a joint venture between US-based multinationals Alcoa and Newmont.
