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Mining Weekly reports that gold producer Harmony Gold is targeting the establishment of coronavirus testing facilities at its own premises to speed up the current two-day turnaround time.
“As an industry, we’ve put together a process to get more test facilities on our own premises. At the moment we do it through private labs because we don’t have the facilities in-house at Harmony Gold,” Harmony CEO Peter Steenkamp indicated. All mineworkers brought back to work for Harmony's ramping up of production at its SA mines have been screened at the point of entry. “In South Africa, we’re trying to get our testing capabilities up much higher and our turnaround times much shorter. As the disease will be spreading going forward, we need to be very quick at tracking and testing people and have a short turnaround time to determine whether personnel are positive or not positive so that they can get them back to work,” Steenkamp explained. “We’re at the moment doing that work to put things together. The initiative started last week and we’re trying to speed it up,” he added.
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