Feb 10 (Reuters) - Newcrest Mining Ltd (NCM) : Contact...

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Newcrest Mining Ltd (NCM) :

• Contact established with trapped employee at gosowong (NCM)
• Confirm that at approximately 10am today local time we made verbal contact with Pak Mursalim Sahman who is trapped underground at the kencana underground mine
• "We are now preparing to send down additional water and food as well as a communication link"
• Says contact was established via a small diameter hole drilled through 54 metres of ground to where pak mursalim is located
• Lot of work remains to be done to get Pak Mursalim out safely
• Says "cause of the incident will be the subject of a full and thorough investigation"
• All mining and processing operations remain suspended"
• Says "not able to give a timeframe at this stage on when we expect to extract him"
• Says "Indonesian mines inspectorate arrived at site"