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PLATINUM MOGALAKWENA INFORMATION CARD
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PLATINUM

MOGALAKWENAINFORMATION CARD

1Anglo American Platinum Mogalakwena information card

LegendBushveld Complex

Operation (100% owned)

Operation (JV)

Process (100% owned)

Project (100% owned)

Project (JV)

Provincial boundaries

Waterkloof305 JQ

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Tumela Mine

Union Mine

Dishaba Mine

Mortimer Smelter

Zandspruit AgreementBRPM

Bathopele Mine

Kroondal Mine

Marikana Mine

Thembelani Mine Siphumelela Mine

Pandora

Boikgantsho project

Mogalakwena Mine

Polokwane SmelterBokoni Platinum Mine

Twickenham Platinum Mine

Modikwa Platinum Mine

Der Brochen

Sheba’s Ridge Project

Mototolo Platinum Mine

Limpopo

North-West

GautengMpumalanga

• Emalahleni

• Pretoria

• Johannesburg

• Bela Bela

• Mokopane

0 25 50

Kilometres

N

• Polokwane

Precious Metals Refineries, Rustenburg, Base Metal Refiners and Waterval Smelter

BUSHVELD COMPLEXNorthern Cape

Western Cape

Eastern Cape

Free State

KwaZulu-Natal

Mpumalanga

Limpopo

GautengNorth West

SOUTH AFRICA

Unki Platinum Mine

BOTSWANA

ZAMBIA

ZIMBABWE

SOUTH AFRICA

MOZAMBIQUE

Harare

KwekweHwange

Kariba

MasvingoBulawayo

Mutare

LOCALITY OF OPERATIONS

ZIMBABWE

MO

ZAM

BIQ

UE

BOTSWANA

NAMIBIA

Largest open-pitplatinum mine in the world

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Vallkop 819 KR

Sandsloot 236 KR

Knapdaar234 KR

Rietfontein240 KR

Tweefontein238 KR

Zwartfontein238 KR

Overysel815 LR

Mogalakwena North

Mogalakwena Central

Mogalakwena South

Zwartfontein South

Sandsloot Pit

Tweefontein North

Tweefontein Hill

Platreef Outcrop

Platreef mined out

Farm boundary

Mining right boundary

0 2.5 5

Kilometres

Legend1

2

3

4

5

6

7

1

2

3

4

5

6

7N

MINING RIGHT AREA Mining right area

137km2Size of 1,000 soccer fields

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UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS

Drilling, blasting and hauling of ore from below the surface

LEACHING

Base metal-rich solids are leached in high-pressure autoclaves and contacted with MCP leach solution to yield separate nickel and copper streams

PURIFICATION

The separate nickel and copper streams are purified. During this process cobalt sulfate is recovered

ELECTRO-WINNING

Nickel and copper metal cathodes are produced by passing electrical current through the separate purified streams

CRYSTALLISATION

Excess sulfur in solution is neutralised with sodium hydroxide and crystallised to form a sodium sulfate product.

OPEN PIT

The open pit enables shallow ore bodies to be accessed

CRUSHING AND MILLING

Ore is reduced in size with the aid of crushing and milling. Water is added to produce a pumpable slurry

PGM REFINING

Final concentrate is dissolved using hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas. PGMs are sequentially separated and purified to yield platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium, ruthenium and gold. Osmium is precipitated as a salt

MAGNETIC CONCENTRATION PLANT (MCP)

Crushed converter matte is milled and the PGM fraction is separated magnetically. This is pressure leached to yield a solid final concentrate that is sent to PMR. Base metal-rich non-magnetic solids and leach solution are processed further in the base metal refinery

FLOTATION

The separation of the valuable content from the ore takes place in flotation cells where reagents are added to an aerated slurry to produce high-grade PGM-bearing concentrate

Tailings storage facility (TSF)

Tailings stored on TSF, which is rehabilitated on closure

SMELTING

Use of electric furnaces to smelt concentrate to produce a sulfur-rich matte with gangue impurities removed as slag

SLAG CLEANING

Converter slag is reduced in an electric furnace to recover PGMs and base metals for recycling back to the converter

CONVERTING

Oxygen-enriched air is blown through a top-submerged lance converter to oxidise sulfur and iron contained in furnace matte to SO2 gas and slag respectively. The resulting converter matte is slow-cooled to concentrate PGMs into a metallic fraction.

ACID PLANT

The SO2 gas is converted to SO3 by passing it over catalytic beds and the subsequent addition of water produces 98% sulfuric acid which is sold to fertiliser manufacturers

BASE METALS

REF

ININ

G

MINING

CONCENTRATING AND SMELTING

PMROUTPUTS

ROCK DUMPS

PEOPLE

LEGEND

PLATINUM

PALLADIUM

RHODIUM

IRIDIUM

RUTHENIUM

GOLD

ENERGY

WATER

ROCK MINED

ROCK MINED

49,000 Employees

Sulpher Dioxide Carbon Emissions

28,311 Megalitres

106,312 Mt

9,337 hectaresused for operations

24,942 Terajouls

SlagSlag is stockpiled

By-product

CHROME OXIDE

SODIUM SULPHATE

NICKEL

COBALT

SULPHIRIC ACID

COPPER

COBALT SULPHATE

OPERATIONAL FLOW CHART

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GEOLOGICAL SETTING LOCATION AND FORM

• Mogalakwena is situated on the 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

Mogalakwena means ‘place of the crocodile’

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MOGALAKWENA MINE AREA- INSIDE RED LINE NORTH PIT

Every minute 142 tonnes of rock mined21 tonnes of rock milled1.4 ounces of PGMs produced

The Boikgantsho Project falls outside the demarcated area

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ROPE SHOVEL IN NORTH PIT The WK-55 weighs in 1800 tonnesHeight of 21.7mat sheave wheelTheoretical 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

MOGALAKWENA SOUTH CONCENTRATOR

view looking south -west

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MOGALAKWENA NORTH CONCENTRATOR POLOKWANE SMELTER

Production to rise to 360,000oz and with further capital investment to 420,000 oz in 2018

Smelter can treat 650,000 tonnes of concentrate per year

Designed to treat high chrome-bearing concentrate from UG2 reef

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


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