SA Gold Miners Will Have to Shell Out in Labor Deal

``Agreeing to the proposal brings nearer the end of a strike that may have cost the industry as much as 349 million rand ($34 million) a day in sales, according to the Chamber of Mines, which represents companies. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, an NUM rival that speaks for 20 percent of the industry's 107,000 gold employees, is yet to see the offer and is meeting Sept. 8 to discuss its response, President Joseph Mathunjwa said. The AMCU has asked for 12,500 rand a month. ''