{"id":76004,"date":"2009-12-11T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-ongoing-destruction-of-south-african-gold-and-mineral-mining-continues-in-october-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-11T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T12:49:00","slug":"the-ongoing-destruction-of-south-african-gold-and-mineral-mining-continues-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/76004","title":{"rendered":"The Ongoing Destruction Of South African Gold And Mineral Mining Continues In October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/publications\/statsdownload.asp?ppn=P2041&amp;SCH=4541\">The South African government<\/a> has released fresh statistics that dovetail nicely with a current topic of fascination &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-coming-collapse-of-the-global-gold-mining-industry-2009-12\">peak gold<\/a>, the ongoing and permanent decline of global gold production.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa is the world&#8217;s #1 gold producer, but its production of gold, and as this data shows all minerals, has been on the decline for some time.<\/p>\n<p>From the perspective of world mineral values, this would seem to augur tigher supplies (and higher prices?) going forward, but beyond that it would also appear to be a major headwind for South Africa &#8212; one of Africa&#8217;s brightest lights going forward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b223f1100000000005c8bac&amp;maxX=574&amp;maxY=281\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gold\" width=\"574\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the visual for total mining<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b223f0000000000007d4dff\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gold\" width=\"539\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<object id=\"_ds_19286144\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" name=\"_ds_19286144\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/v2\/\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=19286144&amp;mem_id=832738&amp;doc_type=pdf&amp;fullscreen=0\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/v2\/\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/19286144\/P2041October2009\">P2041October2009<\/a> &#8211; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-ongoing-destruction-of-south-african-gold-and-mineral-mining-continues-in-october-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/money-pours-into-tiny-speculative-miners-as-peak-gold-looms-2009-12\">Money Pours Into Tiny Speculative Miners As &quot;Peak Gold&quot; Looms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-coming-collapse-of-the-global-gold-mining-industry-2009-12\">The Coming Collapse Of The Global Gold Mining Industry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/heres-the-real-peak-in-gold-2009-12\">Here&#8217;s The Real Peak In Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Ee3NexYzBgY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African government has released fresh statistics that dovetail nicely with a current topic of fascination &#8212; peak gold, the ongoing and permanent decline of global gold production. South Africa is the world&#8217;s #1 gold producer, but its production of gold, and as this data shows all minerals, has been on the decline for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}