ASSESSING, DEVELOPING AND ECONOMICALLY MINING PGM-BEARING ORE BODIES

• Zondereinde – deep-level, mining UG2 and Merensky ore
• Booysendal – shallow, fully mechanised UG2 mining operation

MINERALS PROCESSING

• Merensky and UG2 concentrator plants – crushing, milling, flotation
• Metal in concentrate produced
• Zondereinde incorporates metallurgical complex – smelter, base-metal recovery plant

REFINING

Northam’s production refined at:

• Heraeus refinery, Hanau, Germany
• Heraeus plant, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

MARKETING

In-house department responsible for marketing and sales of metals in sponge or ingot form:

• Domestically
• To major global markets in Asia, Europe, North America

GROWTH

• Underpinned by empowerment transaction
• Acquisition of Everest
• Development of Booysendal South
• Smelter expansion

DIVERSIFICATION

• Mechanisable orebodies
• Lower cost production
• Shallow workings

OPTIMISATION

• Husbanding Merensky reef
• LoM extension at Zondereinde to more than 20 years
• Improved access to Merensky reef on 18 level via decline system
• Solving metallurgical constraints to treat more UG2 ore
• Ramp up to full production at Booysendal
• Extension of Booysendal deepening project