OPERATIONS REVIEW

Pandora joint venture – key statistics
- Ownership
- Lonmin: 42.5%; Amplats:42.5%; Northam: 7.5%; Bapo Ba Mogale Mining Company: 7.5%
- Location
- Western limb of the Bushveld Complex on certain portions of the farms Hartebeespoort, Roodekopjes and Uitvalgrond near Brits in the North West Province adjacent to Eastern Platinum Mine (EPM)
- Access and infrastructure
- Existing infrastructure at EPM has been utilised to gain quick access to the Pandora mine.
- Reserves (total)
- 1.3Moz (3PGE+Au)
- Resources (total)
- 21.3Moz (3PGE+Au)
- Resources*
- 1.6Moz (3PGE+Au)
- Reserves*
- 0.1Moz (3PGE+Au)
- Life of mine
- 30 years and beyond
- Project status
- Pre-feasibility completed; stand-alone mine of 240 000tpm being considered
*Attributable to Northam
The year in review
The Pandora joint venture (Pandora) continues to produce on a relatively small scale from Lonmin’s infrastructure. Lonmin purchases 100% of the ore produced from Pandora. Pandora produced 44 341 saleable ounces of total PGMs for the year ending 30 September 2010 and contributed R7.2 million to Northam’s revenues for the year.
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