South African Hein Frey was fined $3,000 and given a suspended 24-month prison sentence. Australian Daryl Christensen, who worked for contracting company Byrnecut, was handed a 12-month suspended sentence and fined $1,500.
In addition to Grimbeek, former head of Vale’s Sudbury operations, Trevali’s chief operating officer Derek du Preez and director Dan Isserow also resigned, the company said in a press release late on Sept. 16.
The struggling miner has also begun a court-approved sales process for its interest in the 90%-owned Rosh Pinah zinc-lead-silver mine, in Namibia, and its fully-owned Caribou mine, in New Brunswick, Canada.
Flash floods caused by unseasonal, heavy rainfall caused flash floods on April 16 that left eight workers missing underground at the Perkoa mine on April 16.
Trevali spent the next two months pumping out about 137 million litres of water. Equipment had to be imported from other countries,…
