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HAR - Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd - Phakisa Mine:Explosion Update Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa Registration number: 1950/038232/06 JSE Share code: HAR NYSE Share code: HMY NASDAQ Share code: HMY ISIN: ZAE000015228 PHAKISA MINE: EXPLOSION UPDATE Fourth rescue team member dies Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) regrets to announce that Mr Josie Randall, a member of the Mines Rescue Services team (proto team) injured in an underground explosion on Thursday, 24 June 2010 at Harmony`s Phakisa Mine near Welkom in the Free State, has died. This brings to four the number of specialised proto team members who died as a result of the explosion, which occurred while the team were attending to a fire on 66 Level, some 2 013 metres below surface late on Thursday night. A fifth team member is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. Harmony`s CEO Graham Briggs said today that, while the cause of the explosion was not yet known, he was extremely concerned to have been informed that, while work was being done to restore ventilation to 66 Level, `booby trap` explosive devices (similar to those made by criminal miners) had been discovered some 900 metres from the accident scene. Briggs said the company was doing everything in its power to rid its mines of criminal miners, with the full knowledge and assistance of the DMR and the SAPS. "Measures include the installation of additional security fencing and biometric and security card readers at all shafts, the banning of food being taken underground, and implementation of an amnesty, of which 102 criminal miners took advantage and returned to surface." Briggs expressed his personal condolences and those of the company, to the families and colleagues of the proto team members who have died. "These men were volunteer members of a highly trained, experienced corps of mine rescue workers, extremely knowledgeable about mine safety standards, who risk their lives to save those of others in danger. It is tragic and extraordinary that they have died in these circumstances, and we will spare no efforts to determine the cause." Briggs said that: "At this stage of the investigation we simply do not know what happened." The full investigation to establish the causes of the accident will continue during the week. Ends. For more details contact: Marian van der Walt Executive: Corporate and Investor Relations On +27 82 888 1242 Corporate Office: Randfontein Office Park PO Box 2 Randfontein South Africa 1760 T: +27 11 411 2000 www.harmony.co.za Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities Limited Date: 28/06/2010 10:49:01 Supplied by www.sharenet.co.za Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited (`JSE`). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.
