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Competent Person’s Declaration

The Harmony mineral resources and ore reserves have been comprehensively audited by a team of internal competent persons that operates independently of the operating units. The internal audit team verifies compliance with the Harmony Code of Resource blocking, valuation, classification, cut-off calculations, development of life-of-mine plans and SAMREC sheets which support Harmony’s Annual Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve statement. This audit process is specifically designed to comply with the requirements for internationally recognised procedures and standards such as:

• South African Code for Reporting Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves – SAMREC Code
• Australian Code for Reporting Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves – JORC Code
• Industry Guide 7 of the United States Securities Exchange Commission
• Sarbanes-Oxley requirements

In addition to the internal audits, Harmony made use of SRK Consulting to review the gold mineral resources and reserves at all its South African operations.

Harmony employs an ore reserve manager at each of its operations who takes responsibility for the reporting of the mineral resources and ore reserves of the mines for which they are responsible. The competent person responsible for the overall preparation and reporting of the company’s mineral resources and ore reserves in South Africa is Jaco Boshoff (BSc (Hons), MSc (Geology), MBA. Pri.Sci.Nat), who has 14 years’ relevant experience, and is registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP).

The competent person responsible for Papua New Guinea and Australia is Greg Job (BSc, MSc (Min Econ), MAusIMM). Greg has 21 years’ experience in mine and resource geology, and is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Jaco Boshoff

Greg Job