{"id":10997,"date":"2012-06-01T22:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/gold-fields-seeks-accord-with-kyrgyz-villagers\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T22:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T20:30:57","slug":"gold-fields-seeks-accord-with-kyrgyz-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-fields-seeks-accord-with-kyrgyz-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Fields seeks accord with Kyrgyz villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Resumes drilling 8 months after horsemen attacked camp<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* CEO says opposition rooted in environmental fears<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* January agreement gives locals priority for jobs<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Company to compensate landowners for any damage from<br \/>\ndrilling<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Olga Dzyubenko<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARAL, Kyrgyzstan, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner<br \/>\nGold Fields hopes an exploration deal in Kyrgyzstan has<br \/>\nbought time to find something just as valuable as the copper and<br \/>\ngold it seeks: the support of the local population in this<br \/>\nvolatile corner of Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Its joint venture in the former Soviet republic has resumed<br \/>\ndrilling eight months after horsemen armed with petrol bombs and<br \/>\nsticks stormed its remote camp, beating a security manager and<br \/>\nissuing death threats to local residents.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s fourth-largest gold miner now plans to replicate<br \/>\nits experience in the Peruvian Andes, where it built a mine in a<br \/>\nregion where community opposition disrupted rival projects.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve learnt over the last five years that it&#8217;s critically<br \/>\nimportant to get community support for projects,&#8221; Gold Fields<br \/>\nChief Executive Nick Holland told Reuters. &#8220;It&#8217;s probably even<br \/>\nmore important than government support in the first instance.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Resumes drilling 8 months after horsemen attacked camp * CEO says opposition rooted in environmental fears * January agreement gives locals priority for jobs * Company to compensate landowners for any damage from drilling By Olga Dzyubenko ARAL, Kyrgyzstan, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner Gold Fields hopes an exploration deal in Kyrgyzstan [&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-10997","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\/10997","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=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}