The trapped miner at Anglogold Ashanti's Savuka mine was discovered dead on Saturday morning, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said.

"After extensive rescue operations last night, the miner's body was found while one other mineworker died last night at Marula Platinum mine owned by Angloplatinum in Limpopo next to Burgersfort.

"The accident that saw several others being admitted in hospital," said NUM spokesperson Lesiba Seshoka.

Seshoka said another miner was killed by a loader at Angloplatinum's operation at the Rustenburg Platinum mine at the Tweefontein shaft at 8am on Saturday morning.

This brings to nine, the total number of mineworkers who lost their lives in the line of duty this week.

On Thursday, a worker was killed at AngloGold Ashanti's Klerksdorp mine in an accident involving two hoppers, used to transport ore.

Three miners were killed in two accidents on Tuesday and Wednesday, both caused by earth tremors at Gold Fields' Kloof mine.

On Monday, at Impala and African Rainbow Minerals' Modikwa mine in Limpopo, another mineworker died when emerging from underground, while on Friday a mine worker was killed in an accident at a mine near Klerksdorp.

"NUM condemns the ineptitude of employers in all these accidents and calls on the Department of Minerals to strengthen its hand in dealing with these matters," Seshoka said.

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