JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South African miner AngloGold Ashanti on Friday reported its third fatality in two days.

The gold miner said in a statement that a winch operator at its Mponeng mine, near Carletonville in western Gauteng, had been fatally injured in a fall-of-ground incident triggered by a seismic event in the early hours of Friday morning.

A second Mponeng employee had died while undergoing surgery on Thursday afternoon, after having been injured in a mudrush on Monday.

AngloGold had on Thursday reported the death of an employee at its TauTona mine, in South Africa’s North West province, saying that the employee had been struck by a snatch block in a gully.

Investigations by the Department of Mineral Resources and by the company’s management were under way, with operations having been suspended in the areas where the incidents took place.

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