{"id":10350,"date":"2012-04-30T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/congo-ex-rebels-threaten-anglogold-mining-project\/"},"modified":"2012-04-30T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:29:07","slug":"congo-ex-rebels-threaten-anglogold-mining-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/congo-ex-rebels-threaten-anglogold-mining-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo ex-rebels threaten AngloGold mining project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mining concession awash with gold-seeking ex-rebels<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Company says artisanal miners an &#8220;immense challenge&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mine scheduled to start up in late 2013<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jonny Hogg<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MONGBWALU, Democratic Republic of Congo, April 30 (Reuters)<br \/>\n&#8211; A ngloGold Ashanti said on Monday its Mongbwalu gold mine in<br \/>\nDemocratic Republic of Congo faces the obstacle of tens of<br \/>\nthousands of ex-fighters already mining the area who do not want<br \/>\nto leave.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It plans to start Mongbwalu output late next year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an immense challenge and we recognise that,&#8221; Richard<br \/>\nPeattie, general manager of the Mongbwalu project, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s third-biggest mining firm is partnered with<br \/>\nCongo&#8217;s government to build the industrial gold mine in a vast<br \/>\nzone deep in the hills of Ituri, a district in the central<br \/>\nAfrican state still recovering from a bloody ethnic conflict<br \/>\nthat ended in 2003.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As many as 200,000 artisanal miners, mostly ex-combattants<br \/>\nfrom the conflict, have set up operations in the the 6,000<br \/>\nsquare km concession &#8211; some with well-organised teams and<br \/>\nmachinery to crush and sift through rock.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mining concession awash with gold-seeking ex-rebels * Company says artisanal miners an &#8220;immense challenge&#8221; * Mine scheduled to start up in late 2013 By Jonny Hogg MONGBWALU, Democratic Republic of Congo, April 30 (Reuters) &#8211; A ngloGold Ashanti said on Monday its Mongbwalu gold mine in Democratic Republic of Congo faces the obstacle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}