Hundreds of Trapped Gold Miners Rescued in South Africa
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Almost 500 workers in a mine run by Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd., South Africa’s third-largest producer of the metal, have been rescued after being trapped by a fire.
“They’re all out,” Charmane Russell, a spokeswoman for the company, said Sunday by phone. No injuries were reported. Operations have been halted at the site near Carletonville, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Johannesburg.