{"id":647,"date":"2011-05-23T13:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T02:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/australias-gold-production-starting-to-fall-again\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T02:51:06","slug":"australias-gold-production-starting-to-fall-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/australias-gold-production-starting-to-fall-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#039;s Gold Production starting to fall again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As described by the ABC News story below the decline was due to weather with the heavy rains impacting production and NOT due to a reprise of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/forums\/discussion\/6294\/australian-gold-production-and-explorers-shrugging-off-the-costello-curse\">Costello Curse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2011\/05\/23\/3224016.htm\"><strong>Quarterly gold production falls<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAustralia&#8217;s gold production fell 7 per cent last quarter but is up about 6 per cent on the same time last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Gold Production Report from Surbiton Associates reveals production for the three months to March 31, reached 65 tonnes, down five tonnes from the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was largely due to cyclonic rains, stifling operations in both WA and the eastern states.<\/p>\n<p>The managing director of the industry consultant group, Dr Sandra Close, says Kalgoorlie&#8217;s Super Pit was the largest producer for the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It regained the top position again with 200,000 ounces, followed by Boddington at 166,000 ounces and Telfer was the third largest producer,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As described by the ABC News story below the decline was due to weather with the heavy rains impacting production and NOT due to a reprise of the Costello Curse. Quarterly gold production falls Australia&#8217;s gold production fell 7 per cent last quarter but is up about 6 per cent on the same time last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}