{"id":13498,"date":"2012-08-15T02:43:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T00:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-4-lonmin-halts-s-africa-platinum-output-after-violence\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T02:43:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T00:43:07","slug":"update-4-lonmin-halts-s-africa-platinum-output-after-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-lonmin-halts-s-africa-platinum-output-after-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Lonmin halts S.Africa platinum output after violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Police, security guards among those killed in union feud<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shares of Lonmin drop, platinum price up 2 pct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Large police operation includes helicopters, armoured cars<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AMCU union accused of poaching larger NUM&#8217;s members<\/p>\n<p> (Adds detail on nature of stoppage, ultimatum)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas and John Mkhize<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 14 (Reuters) &#8211; The world&#8217;s no. 3<br \/>\nplatinum producer Lonmin  has been forced to<br \/>\nfreeze mining at its South African operations after violence<br \/>\nbetween rival unions killed at least nine people.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin, already struggling with low prices and weak demand,<br \/>\nmay miss its annual production target of 750,000 ounces as the<br \/>\nquarter to the end of September is typically its best. Its share<br \/>\nprice fell more than 4 percent in London and Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The London-based company accounts for 12 percent of global<br \/>\nplatinum output and the shutdown drove the spot price of the<br \/>\nprecious metal as much as 2 percent higher.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two policemen and two security guards were among those<br \/>\nkilled in the clashes from Friday to Monday at the Marikana<br \/>\nmine, about 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Police, security guards among those killed in union feud * Shares of Lonmin drop, platinum price up 2 pct * Large police operation includes helicopters, armoured cars * AMCU union accused of poaching larger NUM&#8217;s members (Adds detail on nature of stoppage, ultimatum) By Sherilee Lakmidas and John Mkhize MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 14 [&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-13498","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\/13498","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=13498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}