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South African gold production drops 23%
Bloomberg
10/09/08
South Africa, the world’s biggest producer of precious metals, said gold production fell 23 percent in August from a year earlier because of an electricity shortage and a protest against power price increases. "There was the Aug. 6 strike by Cosatu that affected mines quite heavily,” Alex Conradie, an economist at the Department of Minerals and Energy, said by telephone from Pretoria today. "The power issues also weren’t there a year ago.” The Congress of South African Trade Unions, known as Cosatu, protested against a 27.5 percent tariff increase by state-owned Eskom Holdings Ltd. to help fund a $44 billion…
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