Issued by Harmony Gold
Mining Company Limited
29 July 2010
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Promising future for Wafi-Golpu as Harmony reports further significant
increase in the Mineral Resource
Mineral Resource of 16 Moz of gold and 4.8 Mt of copper
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Johannesburg. Thursday, 29 July 2010. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited
(Harmony) is pleased to announce a significant increase in the Mineral Resource at
the Wafi-Golpu porphyry copper-gold project in Papua New Guinea (PNG), which is
part of the company’s 50/50 joint venture with Newcrest Mining Limited. The mineral
resource for Wafi-Golpu now contains 16 million ounces (Moz) of gold and 4.8 million
tonnes (Mt) of copper. Expressed as gold equivalents, this resource amounts to 38.5
Moz of gold, which spells an exciting and promising future for this project and also
provides great opportunities for investors.
The increase in the Mineral Resource is due to the discovery of a new zone of
mineralisation directly adjacent to the previously defined Golpu resource. The
mineralisation has been extended by the drilling along strike to the northeast and at
depth. The estimate is based on an additional 19 179 m of drilling in 22 PQ/HQ/NQ
diamond drill holes.
Contained metal at Golpu only, has increased from the 2007 mineral resource (163Mt
at 0.57 g/t Au, 1.08% Cu, 132 ppm Mo) as follows:
· Gold increased from 3.0 to 8.8 Moz of gold;
· copper increased from 1.8 to 4.8 Mt of copper;
· molybdenum increased from 22 to 55 kt of molybdenum; and
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on a gold equivalent basis the deposit increased to 30.9 Moz Au
equivalent.
Harmony CEO Graham Briggs says, “These results have a profoundly positive impact
·on our future resource base and drilling results continue to prove that investing in
exploration was a very good long term decision”.
The drill programme at Golpu is testing an exploration target in the range of 500 to
800 Mt at high grades of between 0.7% and 1.1% copper (Cu) and 0.5 to 0.7g/t gold
(Au) for 8 to 18 Moz of gold and 3.5 to 8.8 Mt of copper. This target includes the
current resource
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