{"id":12077,"date":"2012-07-04T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-1-deadly-fire-at-gold-fields-s-africa-mine-still-burning\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:12:08","slug":"update-1-deadly-fire-at-gold-fields-s-africa-mine-still-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-deadly-fire-at-gold-fields-s-africa-mine-still-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Deadly fire at Gold Fields&#8217; S.Africa mine still burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds KDC East mine reopened)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 3<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A fire that killed five<br \/>\nworkers at the weekend at the KDC West mine operated by world<br \/>\nNo. 4 bullion producer Gold Fields was still burning on<br \/>\nTuesday, the company said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields said in a statement the fire was under control<br \/>\nand the KDC East section of the operation would reopen with the<br \/>\nnight shift on Tuesday, but the western part of the mine<br \/>\nremained closed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The entire KDC operation produces just over one million<br \/>\nounces a year, or about 31 percent of group production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The deaths are a setback for the government and the<br \/>\nindustry, trying to improve safety at mines that include the<br \/>\ndeepest in the world.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the country&#8217;s mining sector recorded no<br \/>\n&#8220;disasters&#8221;, defined as a single incident in which four or more<br \/>\npeople die. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/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>(Adds KDC East mine reopened) JOHANNESBURG, July 3 (Reuters) &#8211; A fire that killed five workers at the weekend at the KDC West mine operated by world No. 4 bullion producer Gold Fields was still burning on Tuesday, the company said. Gold Fields said in a statement the fire was under control and the KDC [&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-12077","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\/12077","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=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}