News24 reports that Harmony Gold confirmed on Wednesday that the body of a missing miner had been found underground at its Moab Khotsong mine near Orkney in the North West.  

This after he was reported missing at the end of the day shift on Tuesday.  Harmony spokesperson Sihle Maake said there had been an intensive search and the man's body was found by the search party on Wednesday afternoon.  The cause of death was unknown, she indicated.  Harmony CEO Peter Steenkamp said he had committed the company's "full support and co-operation to the official investigation".  Maake indicated that the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, police and the company were probing the death.

• Read the original of the above report by Tammy Petersen at News24
• See too, Fatality at Harmony’s Moab Khotsong gold mine, at Mining Weekly

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