A 21-year-old man has died at the St Ives gold mine near Kambalda in Western Australia’s Goldfields.
The Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) confirmed that the fatal incident – the second at one of the state’s biggest gold mines in 18 months – occurred yesterday afternoon.
At this stage the industry regulator and the company are not releasing any details about the circumstances of the man’s death.
WA Police and WorkSafe investigators are on the scene this morning.
St Ives is owned by South African mining giant Gold Fields and has been operating since 1981.
It is the second fatality at St Ives in 18 months — 37-year-old Perth FIFO worker Terry Hogan died at the Hamlet underground mine in October 2022.
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