{"id":6991,"date":"2012-01-12T20:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/gold-fields-agrees-plan-to-resume-kyrgyz-drilling\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T20:36:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:36:59","slug":"gold-fields-agrees-plan-to-resume-kyrgyz-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/gold-fields-agrees-plan-to-resume-kyrgyz-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Fields agrees plan to resume Kyrgyz drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields JV signs agreement with villagers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Plans to resume drilling for copper, gold, molybdenum<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* State geology agency must also sign agreement<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Miners hope new government will boost investment<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Robin Paxton<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ALMATY, Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner Gold<br \/>\nFields has signed an agreement with Kyrgyz villagers<br \/>\nthat will enable it to resume drilling at a prospective copper<br \/>\ndeposit three months after an arson attack by horsemen on its<br \/>\ngeologist camp.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Foreign miners active in the Central Asian state are pinning<br \/>\nhopes on a new government to stamp out corruption that has<br \/>\nstifled investment in the mining sector of the impoverished<br \/>\nex-Soviet republic, where a single gold mine contributes a tenth<br \/>\nof gross domestic product (GDP).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talas Copper Gold, a joint venture between Gold Fields and<br \/>\nBritain&#8217;s Orsu Metals, suspended drilling when local<br \/>\nvillagers received death threats and its camp was attacked in<br \/>\nOctober by horsemen wielding sticks and petrol bombs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The new agreement between the company and the community of<br \/>\nAral village, a copy of which has been obtained by Reuters, will<br \/>\ngive local residents priority when staff are recruited and<br \/>\ncompensate landowners for any material damage that might occur.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Gold Fields JV signs agreement with villagers * Plans to resume drilling for copper, gold, molybdenum * State geology agency must also sign agreement * Miners hope new government will boost investment By Robin Paxton ALMATY, Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miner Gold Fields has signed an agreement with Kyrgyz villagers that will [&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-6991","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\/6991","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=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}