Reuters reported that South African diversified miner Exxaro had restarted production at its Zincor refinery after a blast at the only plant of its kind in the country killed 3 workers and injured 12 others.

Mr Trevor Arran executive GM for mineral sands said that the refinery was restarted last week and was running at 90% of its capacity of 9,000 tonnes per month but would ramp up to full production within two weeks from now.

Mr Arran said that "We are running at about 90% of capacity things are going well at this stage and we should ramp up to full capacity within the next 2 weeks."

He said that internal investigation into the cause of the accident had been completed but the results would only be revealed after the end of the probe done by the government.

(Sourced from Reuters)