Harmony Gold, the world’s fifth largest gold miner, said on Tuesday that a mine in South Africa it had shut after a fatality last week will reopen with the morning shift on Wednesday.
Harmony last week stopped operations at its Joel mine after an employee died in an accident.
“The Joel operations will commence tomorrow morning,” spokesperson Marian van der Walt told Reuters.
“We’ve lost about four days of production and Joel produces about 8kg per day.”
On its website Harmony says the Joel mine, in the Free State, produced almost 64 500 ounces of gold in the financial year 2010, down from almost 66 000 ounces the previous year. — Reuters