Feb 10 (Reuters) - Newcrest Mining Ltd NCM.AX :
* Contact established with trapped employee at gosowong NCM.AX
* 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"
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