South African gold producer Harmony Gold launched a rescue operation on Wednesday to free 17 miners trapped a mile underground after a fire gutted its Doornkop mine near Johannesburg.
The company said it had made contact with eight miners, who had managed to flee to a refuge bay at a depth 1,700 metres.
The whereabouts of the remaining nine miners was unknown, a company spokesman said.
Rescue teams had been sent underground but access to the affected area has been hampered by smoke and a subsequent rock-fall, the spokesman added.
South Africa’s gold mines are among the deepest in the world.
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