{"id":13395,"date":"2012-08-11T02:20:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/gold-fields-ghana-gold-extraction-facilities-reopen\/"},"modified":"2012-08-11T02:20:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T00:20:15","slug":"gold-fields-ghana-gold-extraction-facilities-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-fields-ghana-gold-extraction-facilities-reopen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Fields&#8217; Ghana gold extraction facilities reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold Fields&#8217; Ghana<br \/>\noperations, where gold is extracted from ore, have reopened<br \/>\nafter being shut for over three weeks by the country&#8217;s<br \/>\nEnvironmental Protection Agency, the company said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields, which produces around 850,000 ounces globally<br \/>\neach quarter, said it lost about 15,000 ounces to the closure of<br \/>\nwhat are known as &#8220;heap leach facilities&#8221;. The company is the<br \/>\nworld no. 4 bullion producer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The operations are part of the company&#8217;s Tarkwa gold mine<br \/>\nand were shut on July 16 to comply with an EPA directive calling<br \/>\nfor water discharges to be directed through a treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although Gold Fields believes that Tarkwa was complying<br \/>\nwith the prescribed conductivity levels in its water discharges,<br \/>\nit has nonetheless commissioned the construction of two water<br \/>\ntreatment plants at the heap leach facilities,&#8221; the company said<br \/>\nin a statement. <\/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>JOHANNESBURG Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Gold Fields&#8217; Ghana operations, where gold is extracted from ore, have reopened after being shut for over three weeks by the country&#8217;s Environmental Protection Agency, the company said on Friday. Gold Fields, which produces around 850,000 ounces globally each quarter, said it lost about 15,000 ounces to the closure of [&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-13395","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\/13395","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=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}