{"id":7931,"date":"2012-02-14T02:03:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/amplats-says-safety-stops-have-eased-not-abated\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T02:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T00:03:58","slug":"amplats-says-safety-stops-have-eased-not-abated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/amplats-says-safety-stops-have-eased-not-abated\/","title":{"rendered":"Amplats says safety stops have eased, not abated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 13 (Reuters) &#8211; The chief executive<br \/>\nof Anglo American Platinum, the world&#8217;s top platinum<br \/>\nproducer, said on Monday that a spike in safety stops that<br \/>\naccelerated last year had slowed since the start of 2012 but had<br \/>\nnot abated.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had significantly fewer stops,&#8221; Neville Nicolau told<br \/>\nReuters when asked to give a comparison between the first few<br \/>\nweeks of this quarter and the previous one.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amplats had 81 government-enforced safety stops in 2011,<br \/>\nover double the number the year before, and the company has<br \/>\njoined a chorus of industry criticism about the blanket nature<br \/>\nof the actions, which have expanded to include the closure of<br \/>\nentire mines instead of localized operations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rise in stoppages was a key reason behind Amplats&#8217;<br \/>\nfailure last year to meet its initial production target of 2.7<br \/>\nmillion ounces. It produced just over 2.5 million and is<br \/>\ntargeting 2.5 to 2.6 million ounces this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amplats produces over a third of global platinum supplies<br \/>\nand the surge in stoppages across the industry in South Africa<br \/>\nis one of the factors behind a 17 percent increase in the spot<br \/>\nplatinum price so far this calendar year.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard and Sherilee Lakmidas)<\/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; The chief executive of Anglo American Platinum, the world&#8217;s top platinum producer, said on Monday that a spike in safety stops that accelerated last year had slowed since the start of 2012 but had not abated. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had significantly fewer stops,&#8221; Neville Nicolau told Reuters when asked to give a [&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-7931","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\/7931","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=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}