{"id":7553,"date":"2012-01-31T21:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/rio-tinto-accepts-chinese-offer-for-kalahari\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:24:22","slug":"rio-tinto-accepts-chinese-offer-for-kalahari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rio-tinto-accepts-chinese-offer-for-kalahari\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto accepts Chinese offer for Kalahari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Miner Rio Tinto has<br \/>\naccepted China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp&#8217;s (CGNPC) bid for<br \/>\nits 11.1 percent stake in Kalahari Minerals, a top<br \/>\nshareholder in one of the world&#8217;s largest uranium projects.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CGNPC, which has been seeking new sources of uranium supply,<br \/>\nwants to buy Kalahari for its 42.7 percent interest in Extract<br \/>\n, which owns the Husab uranium project in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CGNPC, whose offer for Kalahari closes on Feb 2, has said it<br \/>\nwould make an offer for Extract if it won acceptances for at<br \/>\nleast 50 percent of Kalahari&#8217;s shares. It is under no obligation<br \/>\nto extend the offer if it does not cross the threshold.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rio, which also holds 14.2 percent of shares in Extract<br \/>\nResources, said it would make a decision on whether to accept<br \/>\nany offer for its shares in Extract in due course.<\/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 Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Miner Rio Tinto has accepted China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corp&#8217;s (CGNPC) bid for its 11.1 percent stake in Kalahari Minerals, a top shareholder in one of the world&#8217;s largest uranium projects. CGNPC, which has been seeking new sources of uranium supply, wants to buy Kalahari for its 42.7 percent interest [&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-7553","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\/7553","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=7553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}