A man in his 30s has died underground after suffering a "medical event" while on night shift at a gold mine in Western Australia's northern Goldfields.
The circumstances of the worker's death are unclear but he was working as a contractor at the Sunrise Dam gold mine, 55 kilometres south of Laverton.
WA Police confirmed the man died around 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, but said his death was not being treated as suspicious.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
The mine owner, South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti, briefly suspended operations but has resumed mining after police released the scene.
It is the first death this year at a WA mine site after the industry was rocked by two fatal accidents in the same week last October.
A spokeswoman for AngloGold Ashanti confirmed the man's death was from an "apparent medical event" and said that his next of kin was still being notified.
AngloGold said it had informed the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS), which it said was liaising with WA Police.
The ABC has contacted DMIRS for comment.
Safety inspections ramped up
Last October's fatalities had a widespread impact on the resources sector and resulted in a ramp-up in safety inspections by DMIRS.
Underground driller Terry Hogan, a 37-year-old FIFO worker from Perth, was killed at the Hamlet gold mine in the Goldfields.
Two days later, a 59-year-old man died when the light vehicle he was driving was run over by a dump truck at the Karlawinda gold mine in the Pilbara.
In response to the fatalities, safety inspectors from DMIRS ramped up visits to WA mine sites with 147 inspections in the three months to the end of December.
Only seven of those visits were unannounced.
The number of site visits was higher than the previous three quarters of the year when there were 140, 83, and 86 inspections respectively.
According to DMIRS, safety inspectors issued 142 improvement notices in the December quarter.
