{"id":11694,"date":"2012-06-21T11:37:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rpt-update-1-aquarius-platinum-halts-operations-at-another-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T09:37:38","slug":"rpt-update-1-aquarius-platinum-halts-operations-at-another-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-update-1-aquarius-platinum-halts-operations-at-another-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-UPDATE 1-Aquarius Platinum halts operations at another mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Places Everest mine on care and maintenance<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Blames labour strife, lower metal prices<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shares fall as much as 12 pct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>June 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Aquarius Platinum Ltd suspended<br \/>\noperations at a mine in South Africa, its second closure in as<br \/>\nmany weeks, as the industry continues to grapple with low<br \/>\nprices, rising costs and labour strife.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shares in Aquarius fell to a decade-low of 52.8 pence on<br \/>\nThursday on the London Stock Exchange. They were down 9 percent<br \/>\nat 54.35 at 0844 GMT.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aquarius, the fourth-largest platinum producer, said it was<br \/>\nplacing its Everest mine on care and maintenance &#8220;pending better<br \/>\nprices and improved industrial relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Everest mine near Mashishing town contributed 21 percent<br \/>\nto group production in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aquarius suspended operations at its Marikana joint venture<br \/>\nlast week.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Places Everest mine on care and maintenance * Blames labour strife, lower metal prices * Shares fall as much as 12 pct June 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Aquarius Platinum Ltd suspended operations at a mine in South Africa, its second closure in as many weeks, as the industry continues to grapple with low prices, rising [&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-11694","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\/11694","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=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}