SOUTH AFRICA: 18 KILLED IN GOLD MINE EXPLOSION | AP Archive
Mining operations are due to resume later Friday because the area of the explosion was localised. Anglogold is the world''s largest producer of gold. In 1995, 1hundred and 4 people were killed in Anglogold''s Vaal Reefs mine near Orkney, west of Johannesburg. The deaths were caused when an underground lift plummeted down mineshaft.