{"id":13664,"date":"2012-08-19T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/factbox-s-africas-embattled-platinum-sector\/"},"modified":"2012-08-19T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T12:59:31","slug":"factbox-s-africas-embattled-platinum-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-s-africas-embattled-platinum-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-S.Africa&#8217;s embattled platinum sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Aug 19 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s platinum sector is<br \/>\nbattling hostile headwinds that include soaring costs, a<br \/>\ndepressed price and a surge in union militancy that saw 34<br \/>\nstriking Lonmin  shot dead by police on<br \/>\nThursday.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following are some facts about platinum producers in South<br \/>\nAfrica, which sits on about 80 percent of the world&#8217;s known<br \/>\nreserves.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ANGLO AMERICAN PLATINUM<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World no. 1 producer<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Annual production &#8211; 2.53 mln oz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Employees &#8211; 58,541<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Share price performance since Jan 1, 2012 &#8211; down 24 percent<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 19 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s platinum sector is battling hostile headwinds that include soaring costs, a depressed price and a surge in union militancy that saw 34 striking Lonmin shot dead by police on Thursday. Following are some facts about platinum producers in South Africa, which sits on about 80 percent of the world&#8217;s [&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-13664","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\/13664","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=13664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}