Issued by Harmony Gold
Mining Company Limited
4 March 2014
For more details contact:
Henrika Ninham
Investor Relations Manager
+27 (0) 82 759 1775 (mobile)
Marian van der Walt
Executive: Corporate and
Investor Relations
+27 (0) 82 888 1242 (mobile)
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
Doornkop resumes operations, according to “slow, detailed start-up plan”
Johannesburg. Tuesday, 4 March 2014: Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited
(“Harmony” and/or “the Company”) has announced that its Doornkop mine
(“Doornkop”) resumed operations from the start of the day shift yesterday.
Operations at Doornkop were stopped by the company on Tuesday, 4 February 2014 –
and subsequently in terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) Section 54
notices were issued by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DMR) – following a
seismic event, rockfall and underground fire.
Nine mineworkers died in the accident and eight others were rescued.
The resumption of operations yesterday – and slowly over the next several days,
according to a detailed start-up plan – follows the lifting by the DMR on Friday last
week (28 February 2014) of the Section 54 notices.
An extensive investigation into the events of 4 February, in terms of the provisions of
the MHSA and under the direction of the DMR, has begun at the mine and is expected
to continue for at least the next four weeks.
Meanwhile, an external safety audit team has been appointed voluntarily by Harmony
to assess and report on safety at all of the company’s South African operations.
Harmony’s chief executive officer Graham Briggs said: “We will learn more from both
processes – the official investigation and our voluntary audit –minimising risk and
operate safe mines.”