The 20 miners who sought refuge in a safe area at PotashCorp’s Rocanville potash mine in Saskatchewan have been safely evacuated.
The miners moved to a refuge area in the mine after fire broke out on a cable spool at 1:56 a.m. CST on Sept. 25. At the time, there were 29 miners underground and nine were able to make it to the surface. The fire was put out around 1 p.m. CST, and the remaining miners were able to return to the surface on Tuesday evening, about 18 hours after the fire started. There were no injuries.
PotashCorp said the Rocanville mine is likely to resume production sometime on Sept. 26.