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Sibanye-Stillwater is a multinational mining and metals processing Group with a diverse portfolio of mining and processing operations and projects and investments across five continents. The Group is also one of the foremost global PGM auto catalytic recyclers and has interests in leading mine tailings retreatment operations.
The Driefontein mine is a large mine located in the northern part of South Africa in Gauteng. Driefontein is an important gold producer and represents one of the largest uranium reserves in South Africa having estimated reserves of 238 million tonnes of ore grading 0.0053% uranium .
The company traces its roots back to 1887, when Cecil Rhodes founded Gold Fields of South Africa Limited. As of 2019, Gold Fields was the world's eighth-largest producer of gold. [4] The company owns and operates mines in Australia, Chile, Ghana, Peru and South Africa, with one 50:50 JV project in Canada.
Norilsk Nickel had bought a 51% stake in Stillwater in 2003, but in November 2010 Norilsk Nickel announced plans to sell this stake. [2] The South African mining company Sibanye Gold Limited proposed in December 2016 to acquire Stillwater for $2.2 billion ($18/share, a 61-percent premium over its average share price during the previous 52 weeks).
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa's deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned shaft underground ...
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FILE - The Stillwater Mining Company, the only platinum and palladium mine in the United States, is seen near Nye, Mont., May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Premier Diamond Mine, Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa An aerial view of the Two Rivers mine in Steelpoort, Limpopo, owned by both African Rainbow Minerals and Impala Platinum holdings limited. Mining in South Africa was once the main driving force [1] behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. [2]