Issued by Harmony Gold
Mining Company Limited
6 January 2014
For more details contact:
Russell and Associates
Charmane Russell and/or
James Duncan
Tel:
+27 (0)11 880 3924
James Duncan mobile:
+27 (0) 82 318 9855
Charmane Russell mobile:
+27 (0) 82 372 5816
Corporate Office:
Randfontein Office Park
P O Box 2
Randfontein
South Africa 1760
T
+27 (11) 411 2000
www.harmony.co.za
JSE: HAR
NYSE: HMY
ISIN No.: ZAE000015228
Registration number:
1950/038232/06
Sponsor:
J.P. Morgan Equities South
Africa Proprietary Limited
Update 3: Doornkop mine
Johannesburg: Thursday, 6 February 2014: Harmony Gold Mining Company
Limited (“Harmony” and/or “the company”) regrets to advise that rescue workers have
located the bodies of eight of the employees who were unaccounted following the fire
at the Doornkop gold mine. The search continues for the ninth employee.
The fire was reported in a stope adjacent to 192 level haulage (some 1 733m
underground) around 18:00 on Tuesday, 4 February 2014, following a seismic event
that triggered a fall of ground. Rescue teams were immediately dispatched
underground, but access to the affected area was hampered by smoke and a fall of
ground.
At around 07:00 on 5 February, rescue workers located eight employees in an
underground refuge chamber, and they were brought to surface, unharmed, by 11:00.
Harmony’s CEO Graham Briggs, the board and management extend their
condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of the men who died.
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