Three killed in fall of ground at AngloGold’s Mponeng

Gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti, which is in the process of exiting its last remaining South African operations, on Friday confirmed that the dead bodies of three employees had been found at the Mponeng mine, which is being disposed of to Harmony Gold. A magnitude two seismic event at Mponeng – the world’s deepest mine – on Thursday afternoon resulted in a fall of ground in a work area 3.5 km below surface.