Fatality in Electrical Incident at Sibanye-Stillwater’s Montana Mine
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A worker died Saturday morning in an electrical incident underground at the Stillwater mine near Columbus.
“The [federal] Mine Safety and Health Administration has been up at this site since Saturday and they’re investigating along with our internal team,” said mine spokesperson Heather McDowell in an interview with Montana Free Press on Monday.
McDowell declined to offer additional details about the investigation, individual or incident.
“Our hearts are with the family here and with the team at our worksite,” added McDowell.
The mine’s owner, Sibanye-Stillwater, has indefinitely halted operations at the site.
Sibanye-Stillwater sent a counselor to the mine on Saturday to help other workers impacted by the death.
This is the fourth fatality at the Stillwater mine in four years, including a 2023 machinery accident and a 2021 underground collision.
Citing the declining cost of palladium, the mine’s major resource alongside platinum, Stillwater cut production and laid off 700 workers in September 2024. Last December, Montana’s Department of Labor and Industry received a $3.5 million federal grant to assist the recently unemployed.
Source: Montana Free Press
Sibanye-Stillwater is a multinational mining and metals processing group with a diverse portfolio of operations, projects and investments across five continents. The group is also one of the foremost global recyclers of PGM autocatalysts and has interests in leading mine tailings retreatment operations. Sibanye-Stillwater has established itself as one of the world’s largest primary producers of platinum, palladium, and rhodium, and is a top tier gold producer. It also produces and refines iridium and ruthenium, nickel, chrome, copper, and cobalt. The group has recently begun to build and diversify its asset portfolio into battery metals mining and processing and is increasing its presence in the circular economy by growing and diversifying its recycling and tailings reprocessing operations globally.
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