{"id":8607,"date":"2012-03-06T02:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/worlds-largest-platinum-mine-restarts\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T02:55:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:51","slug":"worlds-largest-platinum-mine-restarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/worlds-largest-platinum-mine-restarts\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest platinum mine restarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 5<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum<br \/>\n said on Monday that the world&#8217;s largest platinum mine<br \/>\nhad restarted as planned.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Rustenburg mine has been hit by a crippling<br \/>\nillegal strike which cost the company 120,000 ounces in lost<br \/>\nplatinum group metals production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything happened as we had hopped,&#8221; said Implats<br \/>\nexecutive Johan Theron of the return to work.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our focus now is to stabilise and normalise production,&#8221; he<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats full year production target for Rustenburg of<br \/>\n915,000 to 920,000 ounces will be revised downward following the<br \/>\nindustrial action but the company said it was committed to<br \/>\ntrying to make up at least some of the lost ounces.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company has rehired around 14,950 of the 17,200 people<br \/>\nit dismissed for participating in the stay away.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think the bulk of the people have headed back,&#8221; said<br \/>\nTheron, who is in charge of industrial relations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Msiza, the chief inspector of mines for South Africa<br \/>\nwho is spearheading a safety drive, told Reuters the reboot<br \/>\nwould be monitored closely to ensure it was done in a safe<br \/>\nmanner.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been away six weeks and we will expect them to do<br \/>\ncertain things as they start up,&#8221; he said in a phone interview.<br \/>\nHe said this would include rehashing their safety drills and<br \/>\nensuring support systems underground were still adequate.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting By Sherilee Lakmidas and Ed Stoddard, editing by<br \/>\nWilliam Hardy)<\/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, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum said on Monday that the world&#8217;s largest platinum mine had restarted as planned. The company&#8217;s Rustenburg mine has been hit by a crippling illegal strike which cost the company 120,000 ounces in lost platinum group metals production. &#8220;Everything happened as we had hopped,&#8221; said Implats executive Johan Theron [&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-8607","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\/8607","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=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}