Reuters reported less than 7 percent Lonmin’s (LSE:LMI) 28,000-strong South African workforce reported for duty on Thursday while the company met with unions.

As quoted in the market news:

The world’s third-largest platinum producer has been forced to shut its mining operations for almost three weeks because of a violent turf war between the established National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which led to the deaths of 44 people this month.

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