{"id":14762,"date":"2012-09-19T04:37:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/platinum-falls-2-8-pct-as-striking-miners-accept-pay-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T04:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:37:38","slug":"platinum-falls-2-8-pct-as-striking-miners-accept-pay-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/platinum-falls-2-8-pct-as-striking-miners-accept-pay-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Platinum falls 2.8 pct as striking miners accept pay deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, Sept 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum prices slid 2.8 percent<br \/>\non Tuesday after striking miners at the world&#8217;s number three<br \/>\nproducer of the metal, Lonmin, accepted an offer of a 22<br \/>\npercent pay rise to end more than five weeks of crippling<br \/>\nindustrial action.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Workers gathered at a soccer pitch near Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana<br \/>\nmine said they would return to work on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot platinum fell as low as $1,614.80 an ounce, and<br \/>\nwas down 2.4 percent at $1,621.74 an ounce at 1552 GMT.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jan Harvey; editing by James Jukwey)<\/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>LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum prices slid 2.8 percent on Tuesday after striking miners at the world&#8217;s number three producer of the metal, Lonmin, accepted an offer of a 22 percent pay rise to end more than five weeks of crippling industrial action. Workers gathered at a soccer pitch near Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine said [&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-14762","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\/14762","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=14762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}