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To: LoneClone who wrote (38398)	6/10/2009 8:28:01 PM
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Seismic event damaged infrastructure at Savuka main shaft – AngloGold miningweekly.com By: Chanel Pringle 10th June 2009 JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Only a low volume of production would come from the main shaft of AngloGold Ashanti’s Savuka mine, near Carletonville, for the remainder of the second quarter, as some of its subshaft infrastructure had been damaged in earlier seismic events. The South African gold major announced on Wednesday that the primary and tertiary shafts of the mine’s three-shaft system had not been damaged in a series of seismic events that occurred close to its shaft infrastructure on May 22. However, the subshaft barrel below the 100 level and the shaft installations on the 101 level and the 102 level, which was the main infrastructure supporting the mine’s Carbon Leader Reef production, had been damaged. Operational staff were assessing the best way to rehabilitate the subshaft infrastructure and the degree to which select mining on the Ventersdorp Contact Reef at the mine could continue while the rehabilitation was being undertaken, the gold-miner said in a statement. AngloGold Ashanti said that it would announce what the impact of production losses at the mine, together with safety-related stoppages at other operations, had been, once the production quarter was closed. Savuka had produced 14 000 oz of gold in the first quarter of 2009 and 66 000 oz of gold in 2008, representing just over 1% of the company’s production. Both the miner’s Savuka and Moab Khotsong operations were closed on May 22, following fatalities. A pump attendant had been killed at Savuka owing to a seismic event, while a mineworker had also been killed at the Moab Khotsong mine, while carrying out his duties 2 277 m below the surface. Production at Moab Khotsong had resumed on June 3. The company’s Tau Lekoa mine had also been shut on May 21, after a night shift cleaner had been fatally injured when two locomotives collided at a crosscut, 1 350 m below the surface. Operations had resumed on May 26. A fall of ground incident had also killed a worker at its Kopanang mine, near Klerksdorp on May 12, following which, all drilling and blasting had been halted.