South Africa, the world’s largest producer of platinum, ordered mines in the northwestern region of the mining industry by reducing the size of mine-able rock panels and leaving large pillars behind to improve security, Aquarius Platinum Ltd. said. The width of each rock panel should be reduced to 6 meters (20 feet) of 10 meters now, according to an instruction from the principal inspector of mines in the region, Aquarius said in a statement today. The directive was given to help prevent and Rock Falls rockbursts, Aquarius said, indicating the order.
The impact of the Directive is that the amount of ore that the company can cut me.
Five workers were crushed in Aquarius’s Marikana me when approximately 500 metric tons of rock fell on them on July 6. Last year, nine employees deceased after they were trapped by falling rock at the world’s largest platinum mine, the Impala Lease area is managed by Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd, South Africa produces more than three quarters of the worldwide production of the metal emissions vehicles and equipment used in jewelry.
The amount of accidents happening in the platinum industry “is not something we used to see,” said Thabo Gazi, South Africa’s major mines inspector. Mine design instead of depth is the fundamental issue, “he said. Mines Minister Susan Shabangu met with 15 business leaders yesterday platinum in Pretoria to discuss security.
Impala has been the change at its Rustenburg operations performed, spokesman Bob Gilmour said via mobile phone.
All Mines
Anglo Platinum Ltd., the world’s largest producer of the metal, not immediately respond to phone messages or an e-mail seeking comment.
Waterman, who said her Kroondal and Marikana mines affected by the inquiry, declined 1.22 rand, or 3.5 percent, to close at 34 rand in Johannesburg for 5 hours. Aquarius is still assessing the full impact of the order, spokesman Gavin Mackay said by telephone from London.
The instruction to all mines in the region, “said Mackay. Coal and chromium ore is also mined in that region.
source:bloomberg
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