{"id":7920,"date":"2012-02-13T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/implats-says-rehiring-no-rustenburg-restart-soon\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T12:02:21","slug":"implats-says-rehiring-no-rustenburg-restart-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/implats-says-rehiring-no-rustenburg-restart-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Implats says rehiring, no Rustenburg restart soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum<br \/>\n, the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on<br \/>\nMonday it was unlikely to restart its Rustenberg operations,<br \/>\nwhere it has been losing 3,000 ounces a day in output for almost<br \/>\na month, before next week.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is unlikely to be any production this week. We will<br \/>\nrestart early next week at best,&#8221; spokesman Bob Gillmore told<br \/>\nReuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Rustenburg operations have been halted for<br \/>\nclose to a month after a labour dispute led to the sacking of<br \/>\n17,200 employees.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gillmore said the company started rehiring last week and to<br \/>\ndate 1,300 of the 5,000 rockdrill operators required had been<br \/>\nre-employed. He said the company needed at least 2,000 to get<br \/>\nstarted.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The dispute centered on a retention bonus awarded to miners<br \/>\nand has been punctuated by violence but Gillmore said things had<br \/>\nbeen &#8220;very quiet&#8221; over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats Chief Executive David Brown cautioned last week in<br \/>\nan interview with Reuters that it would take &#8220;a few weeks&#8221; to<br \/>\nget back to full production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats accounts for close to 25 percent of global platinum<br \/>\noutput.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas, editing by Ed Stoddard and<br \/>\nJason Neely)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum , the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on Monday it was unlikely to restart its Rustenberg operations, where it has been losing 3,000 ounces a day in output for almost a month, before next week. &#8220;There is unlikely to be any production this week. We will restart [&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-7920","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\/7920","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=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}