{"id":12764,"date":"2012-07-26T01:31:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-1-randgold-says-starts-open-pit-mining-at-kibali-in-congo\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T01:31:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T23:31:49","slug":"update-1-randgold-says-starts-open-pit-mining-at-kibali-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-randgold-says-starts-open-pit-mining-at-kibali-in-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Randgold says starts open pit mining at Kibali in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kibali remains on track for first production next year<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Operations being developed despite conflict elsewhere in<br \/>\nDRC<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 25<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Randgold Resources<br \/>\nsaid on Wednesday it had started open pit mining at its Kibali<br \/>\ngold project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),<br \/>\nunderlining the point that operations continue in the troubled<br \/>\nnation despite recent fighting in its east.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Randgold also said Kibali remained on track to begin<br \/>\nproducing its first gold toward the end of 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DRC had for years tried to interest the major mining<br \/>\ncompanies in this project but all were daunted by its scale and<br \/>\nlocation,&#8221; said Randgold chief executive Mark Bristow.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Congo in general is a daunting place to do business.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 200,000 civilians have had to leave their homes<br \/>\nand several hundred fighters have been killed in recent clashes<br \/>\nin North Kivu province in the country&#8217;s restive east.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Randgold&#8217;s operations are hundreds of kilometres from there<br \/>\nand not even linked by road while the country&#8217;s copper belt lies<br \/>\nfar to the south of the scenes of the recent clashes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are absolutely unaffected. There is a lot of activity in<br \/>\nKivu province but it is sort of the last vestige of warlordism,&#8221;<br \/>\nBristow told Reuters earlier this month.<\/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>* Kibali remains on track for first production next year * Operations being developed despite conflict elsewhere in DRC JOHANNESBURG, July 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Randgold Resources said on Wednesday it had started open pit mining at its Kibali gold project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), underlining the point that operations continue in the [&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-12764","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\/12764","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=12764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}