South Africa's Harmony Gold Stops Operations After Accidents

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
7 February 2014
Tags:
South Africa, Mining

South Africa's Harmony Gold stopped all its operations for a 24-hour safety shift on Friday after at least eight workers were killed in a rock-fall and fire, the worst accident in South Africa's mines in nearly five years. In addition to the accident at its Doornkop mine near Johannesburg, South Africa's third-largest bullion producer said two other workers had died in separate incidents at different mines on Thursday.

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