Aquarius Platinum announces fatality at Kroondal, suspends operations

One of Aquarius Platinum's employees at the Kroondal mine in South Africa was killed in an accident at the weekend, the mining group announced on Monday.

Pedro Tafulane Nhabinde, a team leader working at the Kwezi shaft at Kroondal, was fatally injured in a fall of ground incident on Saturday.

"The Aquarius board and management extend their sincere condolences to Mr Nhadine's family and colleagues," the company said in a statement.

Aquarius, which is one of the world's five-largest producers of platinum group metals (PGM), announced that it has suspended operations at the Kwezi shaft until a technical review of the area has taken place.

It said that the Department of Mineral Resources and representative unions have been notified of the incident.

The shares were down nearly 4% at 19.25p in early deals in London.