MINERAL RESOURCES AND MINERAL RESERVES REPORT 2023
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2023 OVERVIEW
US PGM: 87.8Moz (+4.4%) of 2E | SA PGM: 182.8Moz (+3.1%) of | SA Gold Operations: 41.2Moz |
Mineral Resources & 26.3Moz | Mineral Resources & 28.1Moz | (-23%) Mineral Resources & |
(Unchanged) 2E Mineral | (-10.4%) 4E Mineral Reserves | 10.9Moz (-15.7%) Mineral |
Reserves | Reserves |
Stable long-term outlook at our US PGM operations, with only minor Mineral Resource definition drilling additions. Ongoing restructuring to reduce operating and capital costs to ensure sustainability through a lower palladium price environment.
Primarily driven by the inclusion of the Schaapkraal prospecting right at Marikana (+ 8.97Moz 4E Mineral Resources), and the exclusion of the North Hill feasibility study at the 50% owned Mimosa (-1.5Moz Mineral Reserves).
Primarily impacted by the closure of Kloof No. 4 shaft (-6.1Moz Mineral Resources and -1.6Moz Mineral Reserves).
Lithium: 702kt (+55%) of LCE | Uranium: 59.2Mlb (-11.1%) | Zinc: 3,002 (+257%) Mlb Mineral |
Mineral Resources & 182kt | U3O8 Mineral Resources. | Resources & 1,726 (+287%) Mlb |
(-6%) LCE Mineral Reserves | Mineral Reserves; and Copper: | |
8,163 (-39.4%) Mlb Mineral | ||
Resources |
Driven by successful exploration
at the Keliber project in Finland (+105kt LCE), and an updated Mineral Resource estimate at the Rhyolite Ridge project in Nevada (+145kt LCE).
The Cooke dump and the Beisa project at Beatrix are strategic assets providing near-term development options at a time of renewed interest in uranium.
Zinc driven by the full acquisition of New Century Resources. The exercise of the Mt Lyell option in Tasmania added 1,609Mlb of contained copper, whilst Aldebaran Resources Ltd. earned 60% into the Altar project, impacting copper Mineral Resources.
OUR 2023 REPORTS
These reports cover the financial year from 1 January to 31 December 2023*
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REPORT | GENERAL MEETING AND | FINANCIAL REPORT | STATEMENTS | AND MINERAL |
SUMMARISED FINANCIALS | RESERVES REPORT |
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SUPPORTING FACT SHEETS AND SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE
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- Group Impact supplement 2023
- Progressing the UN's SDGs
- Environmental incidents in 2023
- Biodiversity management
- Social and labour plans (SLPs): Summary of projects
- Climate change supplement
- Sustainability content index
- Tailings management
- Care for iMali: Taking care of personal finance
- Combating illegal mining
- Sibanye-Stillwater'sICMM self-assessment for 2023
- The Good Neighbor Agreement
- Definitions for sustainability/ESG indicators
- Application of King IV Principles in 2023
- ESG scorecard for the long term incentive (LTI) awards
- This report encompasses data pertaining to the financial year ended on 31 December 2023. As necessary or where pertinent, certain information has been incorporated subsequent to year-end
CONTENTS
OUR BUSINESS | 1 | |
Introduction | ||
Corporate governance and regulatory compliance | ||
Location of our operations and projects | 5 | |
Fundamental notes | ||
Group summary of mining properties | ||
Auditing and risk | 18 | |
Mineral title | 19 | |
Exploration | 19 | |
Annual planning process | 19 | |
Commodity price assumptions | 20 | |
Competent persons' declaration and consent | 21 | |
AMERICAS | 2 | |
LOCATION | 25 | |
US PGM OPERATIONS | 26 | |
Stillwater and East Boulder | 26 | |
PGM EXPLORATION | 35 | |
Marathon | 35 | |
BATTERY METALS EXPLORATION | 37 | |
LITHIUM | 37 | |
Rhyolite Ridge | 37 | |
COPPER | 39 | |
Altar | 39 | |
SOUTHERN AFRICA | 3 | |
LOCATION | 41 | |
PGM OPERATIONS | 42 | |
Marikana | 47 | |
Rustenburg | 53 | |
Kroondal | 58 | |
Mimosa | 63 | |
PGM EXPLORATION | 66 | |
Akanani | 66 | |
Limpopo | 67 | |
GOLD OPERATIONS | 68 | |
Kloof | 70 | |
Driefontein | 76 | |
Beatrix | 81 | |
Cooke | 85 | |
DRDGOLD | 88 | |
GOLD DEVELOPMENT | 91 | |
Burnstone | 91 | |
GOLD EXPLORATION | 93 | |
Southern Free State (SOFS) | 93 | |
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EUROPE | 4 |
LOCATION | 95 |
BATTERY METALS DEVELOPMENT | 96 |
LITHIUM | 96 |
Keliber | 96 |
AUSTRALIA | 5 |
LOCATION | 103 |
ZINC OPERATION | 104 |
Century | 104 |
COPPER EXPLORATION | 107 |
Mt Lyell | 107 |
ANCILLARY INFORMATION | 6 |
Professional Organisations | 110 |
SAMREC Code definitions | 111 |
Glossary of terms | 112 |
Abbreviations | 113 |
Disclaimer | 115 |
Administration and company information | 116 |
RSA Generic Mining Permit Conditions | 117 |
DISCLOSURE PURSUANT TO SK-1300 | |
Summary property disclosure pursuant to Item 1303 | |
under SK-1300 | |
Individual property disclosure pursuant to Item 1304 under SK-1300 | |
Stillwater and East Boulder (US PGM) | 26 |
Marikana | 47 |
Rustenburg | 53 |
Kroondal | 58 |
Kloof | 70 |
Driefontein | 76 |
Keliber | 96 |
Internal controls disclosure pursuant to Item 1305 under SK-1300 | |
Americas | 28 |
Southern Africa PGM | 44 |
Southern Africa Gold | 69 |
Europe | 97 |
Your feedback and suggestions are welcome. Please direct them to James Wellsted, Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Affairs:
ir@sibanyestillwater.comwww.sibanyestillwater.com
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Introduction | |
Corporate governance and regulatory compliance | |
Location of our operations and projects | |
Fundamental notes | |
Group summary of mining properties | |
Auditing and risk | 18 |
Mineral title | 19 |
Exploration | 19 |
Annual planning process | 19 |
Commodity price assumptions | 20 |
Competent persons' declaration and consent | 21 |
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INTRODUCTION
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Sibanye-Stillwater is a multinational mining and metals processing group with a diverse portfolio of operations, projects and investments across five continents. The Group is also one of the foremost global recyclers of PGM autocatalysts and has interests in leading mine tailings retreatment operations.
Sibanye-Stillwater is one of the world's largest primary producers of platinum, palladium, and rhodium and is a top tier gold producer. It also produces and refines iridium and ruthenium, nickel, chrome, copper and cobalt. The Group has recently begun to diversify its asset portfolio into battery metals mining and processing and increase its presence in the circular economy by growing its recycling and tailings reprocessing exposure globally. For more information, see www.sibanyestillwater.com.
Our fundamental strategic goal is to ensure that we consistently deliver on our purpose to "safeguard global sustainability through our metals and energy solutions", while strengthening our position as a leading international mining Group, and ensuring we are true to our vision To be a leader in superior shared value for all stakeholders. Everything we do is driven by our iCARES values of innovation, commitment, accountability, respect, enabling and safety.
CASTLE WIND FARM: 89MW RENEWABLE PROJECT UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
Sibanye-Stillwater is listed on the JSE and the NYSE and is required to comply with section 12.13
of the JSE Listings Requirements and the requirements of Subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K of the U.S. Securities Act (SK-1300).
For the SA region, the managed operations, development and exploration properties, as well as for the non-managed assets (DRDGOLD and Mimosa), the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, and the mineral asset valuations supporting the Mineral Reserve estimates, have been prepared in compliance with the South African Code for Reporting of the Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (SAMREC 2016 edition, including Table 1 and Appendices) and the South African Code for the Reporting of Mineral Asset Valuation (SAMVAL 2016 edition), and all requirements thereof have been complied with. This disclosure is also compliant with JSE Listings Requirements, section 12.13.
For the international, non-managed Marathon and Altar exploration properties (all non-material assets), the original estimates were prepared in compliance with the Canadian NI43-101; and for the Century, Rhyolite Ridge and Keliber (Mineral Reserves only) properties in compliance with the Australian JORC Code, which are both Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (CRIRSCO) sister codes of SAMREC and SAMVAL.
The Group has verified them for alignment to SAMREC/SAMVAL and SK-1300, and believe that the final estimates would be similar (barring reporting methodology), and that the estimates can be considered current.
In complying with the requirements of SK-1300, this document serves to satisfy both the summary disclosure requirements set out under Item 1303 of SK-1300 (Item 1303) and individual material property disclosure requirements set out under Item 1304 of SK-1300 (Item 1304). Section 1 contains all summary disclosure related information set out under Item 1303, while sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 contain individual material property disclosure information required under Item 1304 of SK-1300 for material properties. To ensure alignment and continuity with past disclosures, the Group is also disclosing additional and relevant information on non-material properties in sections 2-5.
This report also complies with the internal controls disclosure requirements set out under Item 1305 of SK-1300 (Item 1305). Disclosure pursuant to Item 1305 can be found in sections 2, 3, 4 and 5.
MATERIAL PROPERTIES
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A comprehensive materiality assessment has been conducted on the Group's mineral properties, which led to the identification
of seven material properties which are the key drivers of the Groups' Mineral Reserves, revenue, profits and strategy.
The properties considered material for the purpose of SK-1300 are listed below.
PGM
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- Americas: the US PGM operations consisting of the East Boulder and Stillwater mines
- Southern Africa: the Marikana, Rustenburg (SRPM), and Kroondal operations
GOLD
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- Southern Africa: the Kloof and Driefontein operations
BATTERY METALS
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- Finland: the Keliber lithium project
In support of the material property disclosure for the 2023 reporting period, updated TRS's were filed for the US PGM, Kloof, Kroondal and Keliber properties.
These filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form 6-K, were incorporated by reference as exhibits to the 2023 annual report on Form 20-F and can be accessed via EDGAR.
Notably, for the Keliber lithium project, Sibanye-Stillwater has filed an updated Technical Report Summary in support of materially increased Mineral Resources assessed in 2023. Sibanye-Stillwater is currently undertaking an assessment of its reported Mineral Reserves at Keliber, and will file a further updated Technical Report Summary as required to support the disclosure of updated Mineral Reserves. The Mineral Reserve estimates contained herein are based on the Technical Report Summary of the Keliber lithium project for the year ended 31 December 2022 (as filed with the SEC on 14 December 2023).
Mineral Resources are reported both inclusive and exclusive of Mineral Reserves.
SUNSET OVER THE CENTURY ZINC PROCESSING FACILITY IN NORTH QUEENSLAND
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LOCATION OF OUR OPERATIONS AND PROJECTS
A UNIQUE, GREEN PORTFOLIO OF GEOGRAPHICALLY DIVERSIFIED ASSETS AND COMMODITIES
AMERICAS ASSETS | SOUTHERN AFRICAN ASSETS |
EUROPEAN ASSETS
US PGM OPERATIONS
Stillwater (100%)**
Mineral Resources: 50Moz 2E
Mineral Reserves: 15.7Moz 2E
East Boulder (100%)**
Mineral Resources: 37.8Moz 2E
Mineral Reserves: 10.6Moz 2E
PGM EXPLORATION
Marathon (13.9%)*
Mineral Resources: 0.8Moz 2E
LITHIUM EXPLORATION
Rhyolite-Ridge (6.91%)*
Mineral Resources: 232kt LCE
COPPER EXPLORATION
Altar (48.61%)*
Mineral Resources: 6,386Mlb Cu
SA PGM OPERATIONS
Marikana (80.64%)**
Mineral Resources: 111.1Moz 4E
Mineral Reserves: 16.5Moz 4E
Rustenburg (74%)**
Mineral Resources: 60.4Moz 4E
Mineral Reserves: 9.3Moz 4E
Kroondal (87%)**
Mineral Resources: 4.4Moz 4E
Mineral Reserves: 0.7Moz 4E
Mimosa (50%)*
Mineral Resources: 6.9Moz 4E
Mineral Reserves: 1.6Moz 4E
SA PGM EXPLORATION
Akanani (80.13%)
Mineral Resources: 31.6Moz 4E
Limpopo: Voorspoed and
Doornvlei (80.64%), and Dwaalkop
(40.32%) Mineral Resources: 19.9Moz 4E
LITHIUM DEVELOPMENT
Keliber (79.82%)**
Mineral Resources: 470.7kt LCE
Mineral Reserves: 182kt LCE
AUSTRALIAN ASSETS
ZINC OPERATIONS
Century (100%)
Mineral Resources: 3,002Mlbs Zn
Mineral Reserves: 1,726Mlbs Zn
COPPER EXPLORATION
Mount Lyell (100%)
Mineral Resources: 1,609Mlbs Cu
- Non-managed
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Material property under SK-1300
PGM = platinum group metals, Au = gold,
Cu = copper, LCE = lithium carbonate equivalent, Zn = zinc, U3O8 = uranium
- Verkor's headquarter is located in Grenoble, but planned plant is to be located in Dunkirk (just north of Sandouville).
- Mt Lyell is a copper asset in Tasmania which is currently on care and maintenance.
A feasibility study, which considers the re-establishment of the operation, is underway.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY OPERATIONS
BATTERY METALS
GREEN METALS
SA GOLD OPERATIONS
Kloof (100%)**
Mineral Resources: 15.6Moz Au
Mineral Reserves: 1.8Moz Au
Driefontein (100%)**
Mineral Resources: 11.5Moz Au
Mineral Reserves: 2.9Moz Au
Beatrix (100%)
Mineral Resources: 7.6Moz Au
Mineral Reserves: 0.7Moz Au
Cooke (76%)
Mineral Resources: 1.7Moz Au
Mineral Reserves: 0.1Moz Au
DRDGOLD (50.28%)*
Mineral Resources: 4.7Moz Au
Mineral Reserves: 2.9Moz Au
SA GOLD DEVELOPMENT
Burnstone (100%)
Mineral Resources: 8.8Moz Au
Mineral Reserves: 2.5Moz Au
SA GOLD EXPLORATION
SOFS (Southern Free State project) (100%) Mineral Resources: 6.9Moz Au
SA URANIUM EXPLORATION
Beisa (100%)
Mineral Resources: 27.0Mlb U3O8
Cooke (76%)
Mineral Resources: 32.2Mlb U3O8
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AMERICAS
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PGMs
Sibanye-Stillwater wholly owns and operates PGM mining, processing and recycling operations located in Montana, US. These assets include the Stillwater mine (inclusive of the Stillwater East mine), the East Boulder mine, two concentrator plants, and PGM mining claims located near the town of Nye. In addition, the Group owns and operates a metallurgical smelter and base metals refinery complex situated in the town of Columbus, Montana, which also serves as the base for our PGM recycling business, which recovers PGMs from used catalytic converters. (Together known as the US PGM operations.)
The Group also has a 13.90% equity holding in Generation Mining Ltd., the owners and operator of the Marathon PGM project in Canada.
Battery metals
The Group holds a 6.91% interest in ioneer Limited, the owner and operator of the Rhyolite Ridge lithium and boron project in Nevada, with an agreement to enter into a 50:50 JV on the project, subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions.
The project has entered the final permitting phase, with the final record of decision (ROD) expected in H2 2024.
The Group also holds a 40%, non-managed interest in the Altar copper-gold porphyry exploration project in Argentina.
SOUTHERN AFRICA
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The Akanani exploration project (80.13% attributable) is an exploration asset on the northern limb of the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) near the town of Mokopane. The Limpopo exploration project, located approximately 50km southeast of Mokopane, consists of the care and maintenance Baobab operation (80.64% attributable), the Dwaalkop mining right (50:50 JV area with Northam, 40.32% attributable), and the Doornvlei mining right (80.64% attributable).
Gold
The SA gold operations are made up of four managed, producing, underground and surface operations in South Africa, namely the Kloof (100% attributable), Driefontein (100% attributable) and Cooke (76% attributable) operations in the West Wits region, and Beatrix (100% attributable) operation in the Free State province.
Burnstone (100% attributable) is a development project in the Mpumalanga province. In addition, and in support of its gold mining activities, Sibanye-Stillwater owns and manages six metallurgical processing facilities where gold-bearing ore is processed, and gold extracted.
Wholly-owned and managed projects in study phase include Bloemhoek and De Bron Merriespruit, which form part of the Southern Free State (SOFS) exploration project.
The Group also reports Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves on an attributable basis for DRDGOLD Limited (DRDGOLD) due to its 50.28% equity interest. DRDGOLD operates the Far West Gold Recoveries (FWGR) and the ERGO Gold Recoveries operations.
PGMs
The SA PGM operations are comprised of three managed underground operations (Marikana, Rustenburg and Kroondal). In addition, the PGM segment has a 50% attributable interest in a non-managed, underground operation (Mimosa) in Zimbabwe.
The Rustenburg (74% attributable) and Kroondal (87% attributable) operations produce concentrate which is processed in terms of a toll-treatment (Rustenburg) and purchase of concentrate (POC)
(Kroondal) agreement by Rustenburg Platinum Mines Pty Ltd, a division of Anglo American Platinum Ltd.
The Marikana operation (80.64% attributable) processes its own as well as third-party concentrate via a metallurgical smelter and base metals refinery situated at the operations, and a precious metals refinery complex located in Brakpan, to the east of Johannesburg.
Apart from the primary mining operations, significant tailings treatment operations exist:
- The Platinum Mile tailings retreatment facility (100% owned and managed) recovers PGMs from historic Rustenburg TSFs as well as live tailings streams from the Rustenburg (Waterval and Retrofit) concentrator plants
- The Western Limb tailings retreatment (WLTR) plant recovers PGMs from historic TSFs at the Rustenburg operation
- The Bulk tailings treatment (BTT) facility recovers chrome and PGMs from the ETD1 TSF at the Marikana operation
- The Eastern tailings treatment project (ETTP) facility recovers chrome and PGMs from live tailings material from the EPL concentrator at the Marikana operation
- At the Rustenburg, Kroondal and Marikana operations, chrome concentrate is recovered as a by-product from the UG2 tailings streams
Green metals
Significant quantities of uranium are present in the historic TSFs of the Cooke operation, as well as the Beisa project area, a combined gold and uranium deposit at the Beatrix operation. These are considered exploration projects, even though they occur within existing operational mining right areas.
EUROPE
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Battery metals
The Group owns (79.82% attributable) and is developing the Keliber lithium project in Finland. During 2023, construction of the lithium- hydroxide refinery in Kokkola was progressed, and the construction of the concentrator plant near Kaustinen was approved and commenced. Significant exploration activities are also ongoing at the extensive mineral title holdings.
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Green metals
During 2023, the Group acquired 100% of New Century Resources Limited (Century, 2022: 19.89% attributable), which operates the largest tailings retreatment operation in Australia, the Century zinc operation in Queensland.
With the acquisition of Century, the group also obtained an option to acquire Mt Lyell (under care and maintenance) copper operation in Tasmania from Vedanta Zinc International. a division of Vedanta Resources Ltd. The option was exercised in November 2023, and is currently subject of a feasibility regarding re-opening the operation.
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FUNDAMENTAL NOTES
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This Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Report for Sibanye-Stillwater covers a full description of all of the Group's
mineral property assets, as at 31 December 2023.
The Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves year-on-year reconciliation may be impacted by variations in
commodity prices, currency exchange rates, legislation, permitting changes, costs and operating performance.
All stated Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve estimates are net of 12 month's production depletion since
31 December 2022. The depletion applied to the managed operations includes the actual measured depletion up until
end of September 2023, while the remaining depletion is estimated up to 31 December 2023.
Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve price assumptions for non-managed properties may vary from those used for
the managed operations. In those cases, the reader is directed to the notes provided below the classification tables
for detailed information.
SA PGM operations Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve reporting accounts for four elements (4E) of the basket of
PGMs (platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold), while the US PGM operations Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve
reporting accounts for two elements (2E) of PGMs ( palladium and platinum). Other associated precious metals - such
as iridium, ruthenium (SA PGM), gold and silver (US PGM) - are generally not material to the estimations or
calculations. The base metals (copper, nickel, cobalt and chromium) are also extracted as by-products in
conjunction with these PGMs. These are not reported on individually, but their average concentrations in the various
ores are provided as guidelines. Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve economic calculations are based on a basket
price, taking into consideration all metals extracted and recovered.
In line with industry practice, lithium (Li) and lithium oxide (Li2O) Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves total metal
content is quoted in lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) equivalent (LCE), which is one of the final products produced in the
lithium mining value chain. LCE is derived from in-situ Li content by multiplying by a factor of 5.323, and from Li2O by
multiplying by a factor of 2.473. Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate (LiOH.H2O) can be derived from LCE by dividing by a
factor of 0.88.
No inferred Mineral Resources have been included in any of the economic studies for the reporting
of Mineral Reserves.
Mineral Resources are reported in-situ, incorporating provision for geological losses; and takes due consideration of
the reasonable prospect for economic extraction (RPEE), based on our Mineral Resource metal price assumptions.
Detailed financial models are used to estimate the Mineral Reserves. All modifying factors applied are all-inclusive
from mine to mill. Mineral Reserves are reported as tonnes and contained metal reporting to the mill, with the
exception of lithium and boron, where equivalent final produced product is included as well.
Attributable Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves are reported on a legal, equity interest basis, considering both
direct (project level) and indirect (holding entity level) interests, and also include indirect holdings via subsidiaries and
treasury shares. In addition, the full (100% basis) Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves for each property are also
provided for full transparency.
Rounding-off of figures in this report may result in minor computational discrepancies. Where this occurs, it is not
deemed significant and reflects the level of accuracy of the estimate.
All references to tonnes (t) are in metric units.
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GROUP SUMMARY OF MINING PROPERTIES
Group material mineral property summary
Attributable | Mineralisation | ||||||||
Commodity | Region | Stage | Property name | Area (ha) | ownership | Ownership type | Mine type | Operator | style |
PGM | Americas | Production | Stillwater and | 9,749 | 100% | Fully owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Magmatic |
East Boulder | subsidiary | ||||||||
PGM | Southern Africa | Production | Marikana | 26,223 | 80.64% | Majority owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Magmatic |
subsidiary | |||||||||
PGM | Southern Africa | Production | Rustenburg | 15,898 | 74/86.35%* | Majority owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Magmatic |
subsidiary | |||||||||
PGM | Southern Africa | Production | Kroondal | 8,122 | 87 % | Majority owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Magmatic |
subsidiary | |||||||||
Gold | Southern Africa | Production | Kloof | 20,087 | 100% | Fully owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Paleoplacer |
subsidiary | |||||||||
Gold | Southern Africa | Production | Driefontein | 8,561 | 100% | Fully owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Paleoplacer |
subsidiary | |||||||||
Lithium | Europe | Development | Keliber | 3,038 | 79.82% | Majority owned private | Underground & | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Magmatic |
subsidiary | open pit |
*86.35% applicable to the Hoedspruit prospecting right area.
Group non-material mineral property summary
Attributable | Mineralisation | ||||||||
Commodity | Region | Stage | Property name | Area (ha) | ownership | Ownership type | Mine type | Operator | style |
PGM | Americas | Exploration | Marathon* | 19,625 | 13.90% | Equity in listed entity | Open pit | Generation Mining | Magmatic |
PGM | Southern Africa | Production | Mimosa* | 6,594 | 50% | Joint Venture | Underground | Mimosa Mining Pty Ltd | Magmatic |
PGM | Southern Africa | Exploration | Akanani | 4,095 | 80.13% | Majority owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Magmatic |
subsidiary | |||||||||
PGM | Southern Africa | Exploration | Limpopo | 5,706 | 40.32**/ | Majority owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Magmatic |
80.64% | subsidiary & Joint | ||||||||
Venture via majority | |||||||||
owned subsidiary | |||||||||
Gold | Southern Africa | Production | Beatrix | 16,821 | 100% | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Paleoplacer |
Gold | Southern Africa | Production | Cooke | 14,724 | 76% | Majority owned private | Re-treatment | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Tailings |
subsidiary | |||||||||
Gold | Southern Africa | Production | DRDGOLD* | 31,566 | 50.28 % | Equity in listed entity | Re-treatment | DRDGOLD Ltd | Tailings |
Gold | Southern Africa | Development | Burnstone | 13,136 | 100% | Fully owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Paleoplacer |
subsidiary | |||||||||
Gold | Southern Africa | Exploration | SOFS | 17,022 | 100% | Fully owned private | Underground | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Paleoplacer |
subsidiary | |||||||||
Uranium | Southern Africa | Exploration | Cooke (TSF's) | 8,119 | 76% | Majority owned private | Re-treatment | Sibanye Stillwater Ltd | Tailings |
subsidiary | |||||||||
Lithium | Americas | Exploration | Rhyolite Ridge* | 3,160 | 6.91% | Equity in listed entity | Open pit | ioneer Ltd | Sedimentary |
Copper | Americas | Exploration | Altar* | 8,440 | 48.61 % | Minority project level | Underground & | Aldebaran Resources | Magmatic |
shareholding & equity | open pit | Ltd | |||||||
holding in listed entity | |||||||||
Zinc | Australia | Production | Century | 75,784 | 100 % | Fully owned private | Re-treatment | New Century | Tailings |
subsidiary | Resources Pty Ltd | ||||||||
Copper | Australia | Exploration | Mt Lyell | 4,648 | 100 % | Fully owned private | Underground | New Century | Volcanogenic |
subsidiary | Resources Pty Ltd | ||||||||
* Non-Managed | **40.32% applicable to the Dwaalkop JV. |
Group production summary
Year ended 31 December | |||||||||||
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |||||||||
Region | Milled | Yield | Produced | Milled | Yield | Produced | Milled | Yield | Produced | ||
kt | g/t | 2E/4E/AU koz | kt | g/t | 2E/4E/AU koz | kt | g/t | 2E/4E/AU koz | |||
US PGM | 1,174 | 11.3 | 427 | 1,154 | 11.3 | 421 | 1,469 | 12.1 | 570 | ||
SA PGM | 36,048 | 1.4 | 1,673 | 36,644 | 1.4 | 1,668 | 38,307 | 1.5 | 1,836 | ||
SA Gold | 31,941 | 0.8 | 811 | 36,172 | 0.5 | 621 | 44,402 | 0.8 | 1,073 | ||
Encumbrances
There are no Group significant or material encumbrances in the mineral properties licensing tenure that would restrict our planned mining activities.
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