Two-part modernisation is under way at the Amandelbult underground platinum group metals (PGMs) mine of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), one where conventional mine design remains intact but is renedered safer and more efficient, and the other involving mechanisation and the deployment of low-profile equipment in a new area of the Limpopo mine. “Amandelbult is a conventional underground platinum mine and if we consider both safety and efficiency of conventional mining, it is important for us to consider alternative ways of making conventional mining safer and more efficient,” Amplats CEO Natascha Viljoen told Mining Weekly in an online interview. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)
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