JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – A lower-risk secondary mining business, which focuses on extracting value from platinum group metals (PGM) surface waste that hosts chrome, is being built by the South Africa PGM Operations of Sibanye-Stillwater.
The opportunity lies in unlocking PGM and chrome value from the large, accessible upper group two (UG2) tailings resources on surface.
UG2 tailings retreatment, fine chrome recovery and processing capability are creating a new value stream.
The first part of the surface processing strategy – Phase 1 of the WLTR recovery plant upgrade project – has already arrived.
This phase, which involves treating tailings to recover chrome as well as PGMs, supports the broader South Africa PGM Operations surface retreatment strategy.
