安全 労働者 killed in 試みる／企てるd 強盗 at Harmony Gold 工場／植物 in South Africa
By Helen Reid
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 20 (Reuters) - A 安全 請負業者 was killed on Friday in an 試みる／企てるd 武装した 強盗 on a Harmony Gold 工場／植物 west of Johannesburg, the 最新の 致命的な 出来事/事件 at a 採掘 company in South Africa.
High gold prices are making 過程ing 工場／植物s a 的 for 犯罪のs in South Africa, 主要な to a 洪水／多発 of 武装した 強盗s at 採掘 操作／手術s, and the 長，率いる of the country's main 採掘 産業 団体／死体 called for more police 資源s to 取り組む the problem.
No gold was stolen from Harmony's Kalgold 工場／植物, about 330 km (205 miles) from Johannesburg, in the attack in the 早期に hours of Friday, the company said.
"A reaction 部隊 監督者 雇うd by a 契約d 安全 company was fatally 負傷させるd in an 武装した attack on the 工場／植物... in the 早期に hours of this morning," Harmony Gold said in a 声明.
The South African Police Service (SAPS) was 調査／捜査するing the 出来事/事件, the 鉱夫 said.
The Minerals 会議, an 産業 団体／死体 代表するing 採掘 companies, said there have now been nine "重要な" attacks on the gold 産業 in the past year, in which 従業員s and 安全 職員／兵員 have been held 人質 and 強襲，強姦d, and in two 事例／患者s killed.
Minerals 会議 CEO Roger Baxter said a 欠如（する） of police 資源s to 妨げる these violent 強襲，強姦s was a major 脅し to the 産業.
"Essentially, the 産業 is under 包囲. These 罪，犯罪s are 傷つけるing South Africa´s 投資 and 経済的な prospects and 緊急の 活動／戦闘 is 要求するd," Baxter said in a 声明 calling for 介入 from the 大臣 of Police and the 大臣 of Mineral 資源s and Energy.
In a 類似の 出来事/事件 in October, 武装した men broke into a metallurgical 工場／植物 owned by DRDGOLD, 殺人，大当り the gold 鉱夫's 長，指導者 安全 officer and stealing calcine concentrate 含む／封じ込めるing an 概算の 17 kg of gold.
The price of gold - in U.S. dollars - has 殺到するd more than 15% this year, the strongest 伸び（る） in the precious metal's value since 2010.
In a country on the brink of 後退，不況, with 失業 at an 11-year high, 違法な gold 採掘 and 貿易（する）ing, and 武装した 強盗s of gold 工場／植物s are on the rise.
増大するing 暴力／激しさ 的ing some of its 労働者s drove Anglo-Australian 鉱夫 Rio Tinto to curtail 操作／手術s at its South African 部隊 Richards Bay Minerals, which 地雷s ilmenite, rutile, and zircon, earlier this month.
Harmony said that 予定 to the 現在進行中の police 調査 it would give no その上の （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on the 出来事/事件 on Friday for the time 存在. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Helen Reid; editing by David Evans and Susan Fenton)
