{"id":1173484,"date":"2020-03-24T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1017972"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:33:09","slug":"anglogold-to-suspend-south-africa-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1173484","title":{"rendered":"AngloGold to suspend South Africa operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/south-africa-orders-mines-to-close-in-21-day-virus-lockdown\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"lockdown effort (opens in a new tab)\">lockdown effort<\/a> to slow the spread of Covid-19, AngloGold Ashanti (JSE: ANG) announced Tuesday it will temporarily suspend production from its South Africa operations for three weeks as of midnight on 26 March 2020. <\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mines will be placed on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"care and maintenance (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thevault.exchange\/?get_group_doc=143\/1585041437-AngloGoldAshantiprovidesupdateonstatusofSouthAfricanassets.pdf\" >care and maintenance<\/a> over that period, AngloGold Ashanti said. <\/p>\n<p>The miner&#8217;s South Africa operations include the Mponeng and Mine Waste Solutions and surface rock-dump processing operations. These operations produced 419,000 oz in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>AngloGold said last week that it would suspend production at its Cerro Vanguardia mine in Argentina until the end of the March, in line with a suite of Covid-19-related work and travel restrictions imposed by the Argentinian government. <\/p>\n<p>The rest of AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s mines continue to operate, employing a range of measures to mitigate the risk of the spread of the Covid-19 virus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations include the Mponeng mine, Mine Waste Solutions and surface rock-dump processing operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4,2640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom","category-news","category-top-companies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173550,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173484\/revisions\/1173550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}