{"id":62664,"date":"2013-11-07T01:21:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=62664"},"modified":"2013-11-07T01:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:21:31","slug":"london-mining-resumes-operations-after-community-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=62664","title":{"rendered":"London Mining resumes operations after community unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>(<\/b><b><i>Lunsar <\/i><\/b><b>\u2013 <i>4 November 2013): London Mining management team statement: <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following community unrest today at London Mining\u2019s Marampa site, management announces that operations resumed at 12:00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At approximately 07:30, London Mining personnel were made aware of illegal trespassers on its Marampa mine site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Upon investigation, London Mining came upon up to 100 youth, from villages adjacent to the mining concession.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As employee safety is the number one priority of London Mining, the Company immediately halted its mining operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leone Police were contacted who immediately deployed the Local Unit Commander to contain the situation. We are thankful for their prompt action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We report that no London Mining employees sustained injury. There has been some minor damage to Company property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">London Mining takes this matter very seriously. As is always the case, the Company will work in close collaboration with local authorities to resolve the matter in a constructive fashion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no immediate known cause for the unrest.<\/p>\n<p><b>For more information contact: <\/b><\/p>\n<address>Osman Lahai<\/address>\n<address>Head of Media Relations and Communications<\/address>\n<address>olahai@londonminingsl.com<\/address>\n<address>Tel: 078-903-973<\/address>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Lunsar \u2013 4 November 2013): London Mining management team statement: Following community unrest today at London Mining\u2019s Marampa site, management announces that operations resumed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14394,671],"tags":[2884],"class_list":["post-62664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-featured","tag-london-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}