MOGALAKWENA

INFORMATION CARD

PLATINUM
Largest open-pit LOCALITY OF OPERATIONS
ZAMBIA
Kariba
Legend

platinum mine in
Bushveld Complex
ZIMBABWE ZIMBABWE Harare
Operation (100% owned)
MOZAMBIQUE

the world
Hwange
Limpopo Kwekwe Mutare Operation (JV)

MOZAMBIQUE
BOTSWANA Unki Platinum Mine Process (100% owned)
Bulawayo Masvingo
BOTSWANA Project (100% owned)
Project (JV)
Gauteng
North West
NAMIBIA Mpumalanga Provincial boundaries
Free State

SOUTH AFRICA Boikgantsho project

SOUTH AFRICA KwaZulu-Natal

Northern Cape
Mogalakwena Mine • Polokwane
BUSHVELD COMPLEX Polokwane Smelter
Eastern Cape

Limpopo
• Mokopane Bokoni Platinum Mine

Western Cape

• Bela Bela Twickenham Platinum Mine

Dishaba Mine
Mortimer Smelter Modikwa Platinum Mine
Tumela Mine
North-West Union Mine Mototolo Platinum Mine

Zandspruit Agreement Der Brochen

BRPM
Sheba’s Ridge Project

Thembelani Mine Siphumelela Mine

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Bathopele Mine Waterkloof
305 JQ
Gauteng N
Kroondal Mine • Pretoria Mpumalanga
Marikana Mine • Johannesburg • Emalahleni
0 25 50
Precious Metals Refineries, Rustenburg, Pandora Kilometres
Base Metal Refiners and Waterval Smelter

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MINING RIGHT AREA
Mining right area
137km2
Legend Size of 1,000 soccer fields

1
Overysel 1 Mogalakwena North
815 LR
2 Mogalakwena Central
2 3 Mogalakwena South
Zwartfontein 4 Zwartfontein South
3 238 KR

5 Sandsloot Pit
4
Vallkop
6 Tweefontein North
819 KR
7 Tweefontein Hill
5
Sandsloot Platreef Outcrop
236 KR
Tweefontein
238 KR
Platreef mined out
6
Knapdaar Farm boundary
234 KR
Mining right boundary
Rietfontein 7
N
240 KR

0 2.5 5
Kilometres

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 OPERATIONAL FLOW CHART OUTPUTS PLATINUM
PMR PALLADIUM

RHODIUM

MINING
UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS
Drilling, blasting and hauling of ore
from below the surface
GOLD
PGM REFINING
Final concentrate is dissolved using hydrochloric acid and
IRIDIUM
OPEN PIT
chlorine gas. PGMs are sequentially separated and purified to
The open pit enables shallow yield platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, ruthenium and RUTHENIUM
ore bodies to be accessed gold. Osmium is precipitated as a salt

ROCK DUMPS

SODIUM SULPHATE
BASE METALS
CRYSTALLISATION

CONCENTRATING AND SMELTING Excess sulfur in solution is neutralised

with sodium hydroxide and crystallised
to form a sodium sulfate product.
LEGEND
CRUSHING AND MILLING
Ore is reduced in size with the aid of

REFINING
crushing and milling. Water is added to
produce a pumpable slurry NICKEL
ELECTRO-WINNING
Nickel and copper metal cathodes are
COPPER
FLOTATION Tailings storage facility (TSF) produced by passing electrical current
The separation of the valuable content Tailings stored on TSF, which is through the separate purified streams
from the ore takes place in flotation cells rehabilitated on closure
where reagents are added to an aerated
slurry to produce high-grade PGM-
bearing concentrate
COBALT
PURIFICATION
COBALT SULPHATE
By-product The separate nickel and copper streams
are purified. During this process cobalt
sulfate is recovered
CHROME OXIDE
SMELTING
Use of electric furnaces to smelt
PEOPLE concentrate to produce a sulfur-rich matte
with gangue impurities removed as slag
49,000 Employees LEACHING
SLAG CLEANING
Slag Base metal-rich solids are leached in
ENERGY Converter slag is reduced in an electric Slag is stockpiled high-pressure autoclaves and contacted
furnace to recover PGMs and base metals with MCP leach solution to yield separate
24,942 Terajouls for recycling back to the converter nickel and copper streams
WATER SULPHIRIC ACID
28,311 Megalitres
CONVERTING
ROCK MINED Oxygen-enriched air is blown through a top-
submerged lance converter to oxidise sulfur and MAGNETIC CONCENTRATION PLANT ACID PLANT
106,312 Mt iron contained in furnace matte to SO2 gas and slag (MCP)
The SO2 gas is converted to SO3 by passing it over
respectively. The resulting converter matte is Crushed converter matte is milled and the PGM
ROCK MINED catalytic beds and the subsequent addition of
slow-cooled to concentrate PGMs into a metallic fraction is separated magnetically. This is pressure water produces 98% sulfuric acid which is sold to
fraction. leached to yield a solid final concentrate that is sent
9,337 hectares fertiliser manufacturers
used for operations to PMR. Base metal-rich non-magnetic solids and
leach solution are processed further in the base
metal refinery
Sulpher Dioxide
Carbon Emissions

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GEOLOGICAL SETTING LOCATION AND FORM
Mogalakwena
means ‘place of
• Mogalakwena is situated on the the crocodile’
120km strike of the Northern Limb
of the Bushveld Complex

• The main mineralised horizon is

the 30-100m thick Platreef

• Platreef dips at 40º towards

the west

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MOGALAKWENA MINE AREA- INSIDE RED LINE NORTH PIT

Every minute
142 tonnes of rock mined
21 tonnes of rock milled
1.4 ounces of PGMs produced

The Boikgantsho Project falls outside the demarcated area

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ROPE SHOVEL IN NORTH PIT MOGALAKWENA SOUTH CONCENTRATOR
The WK-55 weighs in
1800 tonnes
Height of 21.7m
at sheave wheel view looking
south -west
Theoretical productivity: 6600m3/h – same
as excavating half a soccer field down to
1.5m in an hour
Bucket size: 55m3 able to pick up equivelent
of 5 male elephants each load

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MOGALAKWENA NORTH CONCENTRATOR POLOKWANE SMELTER

Production to rise to Smelter can treat 650,000 tonnes

360,000oz and with further of concentrate per year
capital investment to Designed to treat high chrome-
420,000 oz in 2018 bearing concentrate from
UG2 reef

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IMPORTANT CONTACT NUMBERS

Name Number
Emma Chapman +44 77 178 81916
Richard Cox +27 72 563 5614
Stephen Bullock +27 83 455 2764
Shirley Antic +27 83 700 7100
Medical Emergency 082911
Police 10111