• The Vaal Reefs mine disaster occurred on 10 May 1995 when an underground locomotive in the Vaal Reefs gold mine in South Africa fell into the mine shaft...
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  • number of people include the 1960 Coalbrook mining disaster, with 437 fatalities, the Vaal Reefs mining disaster, in 1995, which killed 104 mine workers,...
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  • Vaal Reefs is a gold bearing reef which is mined near the town of Orkney in Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in the North West province of South...
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  • Merriespruit tailings dam disaster, where 17 people died when a tailings dam failed. May 10, 1995: Vaal Reefs mining disaster, South Africa; a locomotive...
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  • April 2019. "Vaal Reefs". Minerals Council South Africa. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019. "Mine Disaster Toll Could...
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  • Impala Platinum mine shaft accident (category Mining disasters in South Africa)
    trapped, resulting in a sudden stop which led to the fatalities. Vaal Reefs mining disaster, a 1995 mine elevator accident in South Africa which was the world's...
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    Mine Accident". Associated Press. 11 May 1995. "Vaal Reefs". Minerals Council South Africa. "Mine Disaster Toll Could be 62". Associated Press. 2 September...
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  • The Duke of Edinburgh visit South Africa. May 10 – The Vaal Reefs mining disaster at Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney. A runaway locomotive falls into a...
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    Jacques Chirac is elected president of France. 10 – The Vaal Reefs mining disaster at Vaal Reefs gold mine in Orkney. A runaway locomotive falls into a...
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  • elevator but only 10 deaths and 3 people injured. (See also the Vaal Reefs mining disaster, a similar accident in 1995.) September 13 – Portugal – An express...
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    the Vaal Reef Disaster Fund for three years, appointed to look after the widows and children of the 104 men killed in the Vaal Reef mining disaster of...
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  • Adopt-A-School Foundation and the Vaal Reefs Disaster Fund. Creamer, Martin (18 July 2014). "James Motlatsi". Mining Weekly. Retrieved 3 April 2021. "Mine...
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    which lasted from 1848 to 1854 in the territory between the Orange and Vaal rivers, named Transorange. Britain, due to the military burden imposed on...
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  • proclaims the annexation of the northern portion of the Cape Colony above the Vaal River. October 25 José Manuel Pando, a member of the three-member junta that...
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