alten PGM-Aristokraten in SA ihre Produktion zurück fahren, wollen die Rookies jetzt erst mal los legen.
SA’s latest PGM mine doesn’t inspire confidence
SOUTH Africa’s platinum group metals sector may be battening down the hatches while prices languish but new production is coming on stream nonetheless. Canada’s IvanPlats will commission just over 100,000 ounces of PGMs this year. More production is due from Eastern Platinum.
Commenting in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday, CEO Wanjin Yang said his company will target high grade PGM ounces and metallurgical grade chrome by-products within the Zandfontein section amounting to production of PGM-bearing ore of 40,000 tons per month by the year-end.
Eastplats hasn’t officially communicated how many ounces of concentrate it will produce from the reopening of Zandfontein, a section of the underground Crocodile River mine on the western half of the Bushveld Complex, host to most of South Africa’s PGMs. But it estimates about 80% of its revenue will be from PGMs this year. |