Booysendal platinum mine

An expansion programme valued at R5.6 billion will see the Booysendal complex producing a steady-state run rate of 500 000 4E PGM ozpa.

When Sadanand Makar started Oriental Rubber Industries in 1949, he did so in order to supply rubber products to the Indian Army.

At the start of 2018, assembly started for the first of the two RopeCon installations for the transport of platinum ore at the Booysendal concession.

Both Zondereinde and Booysendal recorded healthy cash margins for Northam despite difficult market conditions and higher operating costs.

Northam Platinum’s Booysendal is flexing its mechanisation muscle tomaximise safety and productivity benefits that mechanisation/trackless mining can offer.

JSE-listed platinum miner Northam Platinum has concluded a three year wage agreement at its Booysendal platinum mine in the southern compartment of the eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex, near Steelpoort. The wage deal was...