Anglo Platinum Limited is a member of the Anglo American plc group. Its shares are listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange Limited, with a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange and a listing of international depositary receipts for the company’s shares on the Brussels Bourse.

Anglo Platinum’s mining, smelting and refining operations are situated in the North West and Limpopo Provinces of South Africa. The company produces platinum group metals (PGMs) in quantities determined by their occurrence in the ore mined. The PGMs are platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium. Nickel, copper, gold and small quantities of other base metals are by-products of PGM operations.

The main North West mining operations include Khomanani Mine, Bathopele Mine, Siphumelele Mine, Thembelani Mine, Khuseleka Mine, Tumela Mine, Dishaba Mine and Union Section (85% owned). The main operating mines in Limpopo include Mogalakwena Section, Twickenham Mine and Lebowa Platinum Mines Limited (LPM).

The company is also in joint ventures and associations with:

• ARM Mining Consortium Limited, a historically disadvantaged South African (HDSA) mining company comprising African Rainbow Minerals Platinum and 60 000 beneficiaries in local traditional communities to operate the Modikwa Platinum Mine;
• The Royal Bafokeng Nation, an HDSA partner, in the combined Bafokeng-Rasimone Platinum Mine (BRPM) and Styldrift properties;
• The Bakgatla traditional community, which holds a 15% share in Union Section;
• Lonmin plc subsidiary Eastern Platinum Limited and HDSA partners, the Bapo Ba Mogale tribe and Mvelaphanda Resource Limited, over the Pandora PGM reserves;
• Xstrata South Africa (Pty) Limited to operate the Mototolo Mine; and
• Aquarius Platinum South Africa (Pty) Limited, covering the shallow reserves of its Kroondal and Marikana Mines.

The company’s smelting and refining operations are wholly owned, treating concentrate and matte from its wholly owned operations and its joint ventures and subsidiaries.

The company announced its intention to conclude two major black economic empowerment (BEE) transactions with two existing empowerment partners, Mvelaphanda Resources Limited and Anooraq Resources Corporation. The deals, when successfully concluded, will create two major, independent HDSA producers who will manage and control the LPM, Ga-Phasha, Booysendal and Northam PGM assets.

In Zimbabwe, the company is developing the Unki Platinum Mine and in Canada, Russia, Brazil and China it is involved in exploration. Anglo Platinum has a representative office in Beijing.