Issued by Harmony Gold
Mining Company Limited
25 April 2013
For more details contact:
Henrika Basterfield
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
Rescue efforts concluded at Harmony’s Phakisa mine
Johannesburg. Thursday, 25 April 2013. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited
(“Harmony” or the “Company”) advises that the rescue teams have recovered the body of
the missing mineworker at its Phakisa mine near Welkom at approximately 13:00 today.
The employee went missing after a fire started at the mine on Tuesday afternoon. The
cause of the fire is still unknown and the containment and efforts to extinguish the
underground fire are ongoing.
Harmony’s Chief Executive Officer, Graham Briggs and his management team, wish to
express their sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.
We wish to thank everyone involved in the rescue efforts – the mine rescue teams, the
Mine Rescue Services, the Department of Mineral Resources, the operational teams and
the unions.
About Harmony
Harmony was incorporated 62 year ago and is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world and the
third largest gold producer in South Africa with a reported production of 1.17* million ounces of gold for the
financial year 2012 and Mineral Reserves of 52.9 million ounces. Harmony is a multi-listed company and its
primary listing is on the JSE Limited (ticker: HAR). The company’s shares are also quoted in the form of
American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker: HMY) and as International
Depositary Receipts (IDRs) on the Berlin (ticker: HAM1) and Brussels exchanges (HMY).
Harmony operates mines in South African and Papua New Guinea. In South Africa, the company has ten
underground mines and one open-pit mine and several surface operations in South Africa. In PNG, Harmony
has a 50% interest in the Morobe Mining Joint Ventures, which includes Hidden Valley, an open-pit gold and
silver mine, the exciting Wafi -Golpu project, and extensive exploration tenements. Outside the joint venture,
Harmony’s own exploration portfolio focuses principally on highly prospective areas in PNG. The Company’s
head office is situated in Randfontein, South Africa.
*Continued operations
ends.