{"id":1173814,"date":"2020-03-25T12:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1018134"},"modified":"2020-03-25T12:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:38:40","slug":"sibanye-to-put-south-african-operations-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1173814","title":{"rendered":"Sibanye to put South African operations on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE: SSW, NYSE: SBSW) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"announced (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thevault.exchange\/?get_group_doc=245\/1585136699-sibanye-stillwater-update-impact-covid19-25mar2020.pdf\" >announced<\/a> on Wednesday that has begun implementing measures to place its South African gold and PGM operations under temporary care and maintenance, in accordance with the nation-wide <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"lockdown (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/south-african-mining-braces-for-coronavirus-lockdown\/\" >lockdown<\/a> for 21 days, effective midnight on Thursday.    <\/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>&#8220;This suspension of operations will adversely impact on production at the South African mines and shareholders are therefore cautioned that production for 2020 may differ from previous guidance,&#8221;  Sibanye said in the media release.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, the company&#8217;s gold operations consist of underground mining and surface treatment facilities at Beatrix, Driefontein and Kloof in the Witwatersrand Basin.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\">\n<blockquote>\n<p> The company&#8217;s SA operations produced 1,176,600 oz of gold in 2018  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The company&#8217;s SA operations produced 1,176,600 oz of gold in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Sibanye&#8217;s Southern Africa PGM operations consist of underground mining operations and surface sources at Kroondal, Rustenburg and at Marikana. The company also has a 91% stake in the Platinum Mile tailings retreatment facility near Rustenburg. These operations produced 1.18 million oz in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The company also <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"reduced (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/sibanye-stillwater-cuts-us-workers-in-response-to-virus\/\" >reduced<\/a> the number of people at its US operations on a temporary basis due to the coronavirus outbreak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company also reduced the number of people at its US 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-1173814","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\/1173814","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=1173814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173913,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173814\/revisions\/1173913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}