{"id":12243,"date":"2012-07-10T00:25:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T22:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/gold-fields-miners-to-down-tools-after-deaths\/"},"modified":"2012-07-10T00:25:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T22:25:17","slug":"gold-fields-miners-to-down-tools-after-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-fields-miners-to-down-tools-after-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Fields&#8217; miners to down tools after deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Miners at the KDC West mine<br \/>\noperated by Gold Fields, the world&#8217;s fourth-largest<br \/>\ngold miner, will stay off work on Tuesday to honour five workers<br \/>\nkilled last weekend, the National Union of Mine Workers said on<br \/>\nMonday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The miners died in a fire as they worked underground on June<br \/>\n30. The company closed the entire mine after the fire but has<br \/>\nsince opened some sections of the operation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company has yet to open the shaft where the incident<br \/>\noccurred, because the fire there has not been extinguished, it<br \/>\nsaid in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The entire KDC operation produces just over 1 million ounces<br \/>\na year, or about 31 percent of group production.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olivia Kumwenda, editing by Jane Baird)<\/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, July 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Miners at the KDC West mine operated by Gold Fields, the world&#8217;s fourth-largest gold miner, will stay off work on Tuesday to honour five workers killed last weekend, the National Union of Mine Workers said on Monday. The miners died in a fire as they worked underground on June 30. [&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-12243","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\/12243","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=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}