08:22 AM EST, 01/31/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Trigon Metals ( PNTZF ) on Friday said it suspended operations at its Kombat Mine in Namibia for between six to nine months after two main submersible dewatering pumps failed.

Water levels have returned to their normal levels of 60 metres below service at Shaft 1 and 120 metres at Shaft 3. Trigon expects that dewatering will restart in the third quarter of this year, once the pumps have been repaired and the risk of reoccurrence has been mitigated.

Both pumps have been sent to a third party engineering firm for independent verification of the root causes for the failures. Trigon has also retrenched most of its onsite employees.