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Feb 12 (Reuters) - Griffin Mining said on Wednesday
it was returning essential staff to its Caijiaying mine in
northeastern China to restart operations after Chinese
government decrees restricting all non-essential businesses due
to a coronavirus outbreak were lifted.
China reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases
since late January, bolstering a forecast by Beijing's senior
medical adviser for the outbreak in the country to end by April,
even though fears of further international spread remained.
Griffin, which has been developing the Caijiaying zinc and
gold project since 1997, announced at the end of last month that
mining operations at the mine had been suspended on Jan. 22
during Lunar New Year festivities.
The London-based company said this month that all
non-essential local staff had been sent home and placed on
standby with the expectation that operations would restart on
Monday, as mandated by China.
(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; editing by
Jonathan Oatis)
