AMANDELBULT 02 Making the impossible possible 05 Working with our COMPLEX NEWS communities 11 Watch out for scam artists 12 Take control of your ISSUE 1 | 2016 FOR THE PEOPLE OF AMANDELBULT debt PAGE 3 THE TIDE IS TURNING FOR AMANDELBULT COMPLEX
TOGETHER WE ARE MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE With more than 15 000 employees and contractors, Amandelbult complex is a significant operation comprising Tumela and Dishaba mines, as well as three concentrators. Amandelbult Complex News aims to start a conversation with these people, as well as the members of the complex’s doorstep communities. ON THE COVER E mployee and community engagement introduce you to the executive team (pages SHOWING WHAT WE CAN DO… is a top priority at Amandelbult 3 and 4) and as highlight some of the many Anglo American Platinum complex. The introduction of community projects the complex is driving executives were recently given a Amandelbult Complex News is just one of (page 5). In addition, we have included tour of Tumela’s ‘mine within a the ways in which the complex is improving Anglo American Platinum company-wide mine’ project (see page 3). engagement with its employees and the initiatives that affect the complex and its community. stakeholders (page 9). Here are some of them with THIS IS YOUR PUBLICATION members of the project team and The publication, which will be distributed Amandelbult complex executives, each month across the complex, as well as For Amandelbult Complex News to be from left: Kagiso Mokoke, Zizwe within our doorstep communities, features successful, it needs to become a two-way Batlase contractor; Johan Burger, articles on the developments and activities channel which the people of Amandelbult – open-cast engineer; Heinrich that affect our readers and achievements of employees and communities – can use to Müller, open-cast geologist; our people. engage on issues related to the complex. Richard Cox, general manager of BEHIND THE SCENES Mogalakwena complex; Benedict Readers are encouraged to contact the Ngesi, general manager of Tumela We will also be going ‘behind the scenes’ editorial team with your comments and mine; William Taylor, senior general of each area of operation on the complex suggestions, as well as newsworthy events manager of Amandelbult complex; including Tumela and Dishaba mines, the that would be of interest to other readers. Raymond Makgato, Amandelbult concentrators and production support You don’t have to write articles or take chief geologist; and Walter services – what their goals are, who works photographs, just let us know and we will Nemassi, general manager of Unki there and what they have achieved. work with you to compile your content for Mines in Zimbabwe. the publication. (See contact details for the In this first issue of the publication, we editorial team on this page.) A SEE YOURSELF IN PRINT! PRODUCTION Tell us about events and Amandelbult Complex News is produced by Anglo American developments at Amandelbult Platinum’s communication department in collaboration with the complex and in your community, complex’s editorial team. as well as your thoughts on how things could be improved or how things are going in your part of the CONTACT US Amandelbult world. You don’t have Email tintswalo.khosa-gieseke@angloamerican.com; to write the article yourself, you or speak to your supervisor who will submit your simply need to contact us and we contribution for you. will work with you to get the story. 2 | AMANDELBULT COMPLEX NEWS
THE TIDE IS TURNING FOR AMANDELBULT COMPLEX Saving lives and saving jobs is a mantra that William Taylor, senior general manager , lives and works by as he works with the Amandelbult team to keep the complex a viable operation. THE MINE WITHIN A MINE… William J Taylor explains how the new ust a few years ago, Amandelbult studies showed the rock mass ratings of open cast mine is adding value to complex was a shrinking operation. *UG2 at Dishaba’s 14 level made mining it Amandelbult complex during the Tumela’s upper mine, which employs viable. This contradicted findings that were recent Platinum executive visit. 3 500 people, was nearing its expiry date, made in the past when technology was less Dishaba mine was not cash positive and sophisticated. one of our three concentrators faced conventional mine that has not gone GAME CHANGER closure. While Tumela was achieving its through a retrenchment exercise and we targets, it couldn’t carry the entire complex. This was a game changer for Dishaba, hope to keep it that way. (See the next as well as for the third concentrator. By issue of Amandelbult Complex News for VIABLE OPERATION expanding our mining activities, production more on the ‘mine within a mine’.) We never gave up on finding ways in which will be increased and jobs provided for the to make the complex a viable operation people of Tumela Upper. In addition, the OUR COMMUNITY as a whole. A significant solution came in third concentrator will be able to operate Saving lives and saving jobs is our focus at the form of creating a ‘mine within a mine’. optimally again. I am proud to say that we Amandelbult complex and we are only too Recent underground mapping and borehole are the only Anglo American Platinum aware that our success is related to that of our doorstep communities where most of our employees live. It’s a critical relationship WHAT IS *UG2? for us and we work continuously with community leaders to ensure (see page 10) that the support we provide them is relevant The Merensky Reef is a layer of igneous rock in the Bushveld Igneous to their needs. Complex in North West, Limpopo, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces. This reef, together with an underlying layer – the Upper Group 2 Reef (UG2) We have proven that together we are – contains most of the world’s known reserves of platinum group metals capable of achieving much more than (PGMs) or platinum group elements (PGEs), that is, platinum, palladium, we initially believed we could, making the rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium. impossible possible. We still have a way to go to bring Amandelbult complex to its While the UG2 Reef is rich in chromite, it lacks the Merensky’s gold, copper optimal performance, but I am confident we and nickel by-products. However, its reserves may be almost twice those of are on the right track. The key is to remain the Merensky Reef. determined to succeed and to continuously Wikipedia focus on delivering on our targets. A AMANDELBULT COMPLEX NEWS | 3
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