The mining operation, effective immediately, no longer will use the contracting firms at the mine, and the mine has laid criminal charges against contract workers who held several supervisors against their will during an underground strike that ended Saturday morning. Some 500 contract workers began a "sit-in" Thursday morning, holding supervisors hostage to press demands to be employed directly by the mine. Vancouver-based Eastplats on Saturday said the contract workers agreed to end their strike after the supervisors returned to the surface the previous evening. The Crocodile River mine, located in South Africa's North West province, said it plans to increase the mine's current number of employees from about 1,500 currently. The mine's plant continued to operate during the labor problems using stockpiled ore, and it said it can continue to do so until the middle of next week. The company said it will redeploy existing employees, which should allow it to achieve about 50% of the mine's current production. -By Robb M. Stewart, Dow Jones Newswires; +27 11 783 7848; robb.stewart@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires 07-12-09 1638ET For full details for ELRFF click here.
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