{"id":10750,"date":"2012-05-27T22:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/bodies-of-10-illegal-diamond-miners-found-in-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T22:09:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T20:09:31","slug":"bodies-of-10-illegal-diamond-miners-found-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/bodies-of-10-illegal-diamond-miners-found-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of 10 illegal diamond miners found in S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The bodies of 10 illegal<br \/>\ndiamond miners were pulled from a disused mine in South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nNorthern Cape province, diamond giant De Beers said late on<br \/>\nSaturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>De Beers officials have been at the site since Tuesday after<br \/>\na tunnel collapsed in an area where the diamond producer had<br \/>\nstopped mining two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The operation will progress until all illegally excavated<br \/>\ntunnels are found, De Beers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eleven diggers reportedly escaped from the collapsing<br \/>\ntunnels on Tuesday and one survivor has been recovered.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The area is on the edge of Namaqualand Mines, which De Beers<br \/>\nis in the process of selling to Johannesburg-listed miner Trans<br \/>\nHex.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has the world&#8217;s deepest gold mines and is the<br \/>\ntop producer of platinum. Old or abandoned shafts are often<br \/>\nworked by informal diggers, many of them migrants from Zimbabwe<br \/>\nor Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has set up a team to seal access points at<br \/>\nmines in a bid to stem an apparent resurgence in illegal mining,<br \/>\nthe mines minister said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Janet Lawrence)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; The bodies of 10 illegal diamond miners were pulled from a disused mine in South Africa&#8217;s Northern Cape province, diamond giant De Beers said late on Saturday. De Beers officials have been at the site since Tuesday after a tunnel collapsed in an area where the diamond producer had stopped [&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-10750","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\/10750","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=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}