More than 30 employees at a Canadian potash mine have been rescued after being trapped underground for 24 hours, a company spokesman said.
The workers were carrying out maintenance duties when a service shaft broke down on Tuesday afternoon at Saskatoon-based fertilizer firm Nutrien.
"We can confirm that all 34 employees have been safely brought to the surface at our Cory Potash site," Nutrien spokesman Will Tigley said Wednesday evening.
The miners had been stuck at the bottom of the mine approximately one kilometer (half a mile) underground, but had water and food supplies with them.
The incident occurred at the company´s Cory mine, located southwest of Saskatoon, the largest city in the province of Saskatchewan, in the Canada´s central grassland region.All 34 workers that had been trapped underground at Nutrien Ltd.’s Cory potash mine in Saskatchewan since Tuesday afternoon have been rescued.
“All 34 employees have been safely brought to the surface at our Cory Potash site,” Will Tigley, a spokesman for the world’s largest crop-nutrient supplier, said in an email.
The maintenance workers became trapped undergroundafter the service shaft at the mine stopped operating.
The Cory mine isn’t currently producing potash, and is in its summer maintenance period. With the mine out of production, the incident didn’t affect global potash supply.
Nutrien shares closed Wednesday down 0.4% in Toronto.
