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Miner’s body found at Harmony’s Phakisa mine

25th April 2013

By: Natasha Odendaal

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

  

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JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The body of a miner who went missing after a fire broke out at JSE-listed Harmony Gold’s Phakisa mine, on Tuesday, has been recovered.

Rescue teams, which had been searching for the missing employee since the fire started on Tuesday, recovered the body at about 13:00 on Thursday at the Welkom-based mine.

The company said in a statement that efforts to contain and extinguish the fire, the cause of which was still unknown, continued into a second day.

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Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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