ARM
African Rainbow Minerals Limited of which ARM Platinum is a subsidiary
ART
Anti-retroviral therapy, provided for the treatment of HIV and AIDS (excluding state and private medical aid)
ASX
Australian Securities Exchange
BEE
Black economic empowerment
Bord and pillar
Underground mining method where ore is extracted from rectangular shaped rooms, leaving parts of the ore as pillars to support the roof. Pillars are usually rectangular and arranged in a regular pattern
BRIC
BRIC is an acronym that refers to the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China combined. These economies are viewed as the major developing economies in the world.
Concentrating
A process of splitting the ground ore in two fractions, one containing the valuable minerals, the other waste
Cost per tonne/refined platinum ounce/refined PGM ounce
The cash cost of mining, concentrating, smelting, refining, marketing and corporate office expressed per unit of measure
CBO
Community-based organisation
dB
Decibels. Unit of measurement for sound
Decline
A shallow dipping mining excavation used to access the orebody
Dense Media Separation
A means of separating reef from waste exploiting differences in density
Development
Underground excavation for the purpose of accessing Mineral Reserves
DMR
Department of Mineral Resources, formerly known as the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME)
DSM
Demand side management
Dunite
Igneous rock consisting mainly of olivine
Dyke
A wall-like body of igneous rock that is intruded (usually vertically) into the surrounding rock in such a way that it cuts across the stratification (layering) of this rock
ECSA
Engineering Council of South Africa: The Engineering Profession Act, 2000 (Act No 46 of 2000) was promulgated in 2000; the Act became effective in 2011. In terms of Section 18(1), the Act empowers ECSA to register persons in certain prescribed Categories of Registration. Paragraph 9 of the SAMREC code refers to ECSA; “A ‘Competent Person’ is a person who is registered with SACNASP, ECSA or PLATO, or is a Member or Fellow of the SAIMM, the GSSA or a Recognised Oversees Professional Organisation (ROPO)”
EIA
Environmental Impact Assessment
EMP
Environmental Management Programme
EMS
Environmental Management System
ESOP
Employee Share Ownership Programme
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)
A security that tracks an index, a commodity or a basket of assets like an index fund, but trades like a stock on an exchange. ETFs experience price changes throughout the day as they are bought and sold.
Executive director
Is employed by the Company and is involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation
Facies
The appearance and characteristics of a rock unit, reflecting the conditions of its origin, and differentiating it from adjacent (lateral or vertical) or associated units due to a change in the depositional environment. The term facies must not be confused with reef types, which some variation within the same environment
FIFR
A rate expressed per million man hours of any Impala employee, contractor or contractor employee or visitor who is involved in an incident whilst performing his duties at work and who sustains terminal injuries shall constitute a fatal accident. Any road related fatal incident where the Company is in full control of the vehicle, the driver and conditions related to the road injury of an employee shall constitute a fatal incident. A fatal injury may occur when an employee is incapacitated for a period of time prior to expiration, thus requiring a revision of injury status from LTI to a fatality
g/t
Financial year (to 30 June)
FOG
Grams per metric tonne. The unit of measurement of metal content grade, equivalent to parts per million
GJ
Gigajoules. Unit of measure for energy
GRI
Global Reporting Initiative
Group unit cost per refined platinum ounce/refined PGM ounce
The cash cost of mining, concentrating and other operating e3xpenses (marketing, corporate office) expressed per unit of mine-to-market measure, as well as the cost of smelting and refining expressed per gross unit of measure
GSSA
Geological Society of South Africa
ha
Abbreviation for hectare, unit of area measurement equal to 10 000 square metres
HDSA
Historically disadvantaged South Africans, being South African nationals who were prior to 1994, disadvantaged whether by legislation or convention
Headgrade
The value, usually expressed in parts per million or grams per tonne, of the contained mineralisation of economic interest in material delivered to the mill
HIV
Human immuno-deficiency virus
HSE
Health, Safety and Environment
IBT
Impala Bafokeng Trust, socio-economic development vehicle jointly funded by Implats and RBH
ICDT
Impala Community Development Trust, vehicle for socio-economic development, now dissolved
IDP
Integrated Development Plan
IFRS
International Financial Reporting Standards
ILO
International Labour Organisation
Impala Platinum
Impala Platinum Limited, comprising the Rustenburg operations and the Refineries in Springs
Implats
Impala Platinum Holdings Limited
Independent directors
Directors who apart from receiving directors’ remuneration do not have any other material pecuniary relationship or transactions with the Company, its management or its subsidiaries, which in the judgement of the Board may affect their independence.
In situ
In its natural position or place
IRS
Impala Refining Services Limited
IPA
International Platinum Association
ISO
International Organisation for Standardisation
JORC
The Australasian Code for the Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves
JSE
The JSE Limited, the South African securities exchange based in Johannesburg. Formerly, the JSE Securities Exchange and prior to that the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
King III
The Third King Report on Corporate Governance
Kriging
A geostatistical estimation method that gives the best unbiased linear estimates of point values or of block averages
LED
Local Economic Development
Local community
Communities that are directly impacted on by our mining operations and are on or near the mine lease area
Lost time
A work-related injury resulting in the employee being unable to attend work at his/her place of work, performing his/her assigned duties, on the next calendar day (whether a scheduled work day or not) after the day of the injury. If the appointed medical professional advises that the injured person is unable to attend work on the next calendar day after the injury, regardless of the injured person’s next roster shift, a lost time injury is deemed to have occurred
LSE
London Stock Exchange
LTIFR
Number of lost-time injuries expressed as a rate per million hours worked
Mafic
An igneous rock composed mainly o dark ferromagnesium minerals
Marula
Marula Platinum (Pty) Limited
Materiality and material issues
Issues of materiality are those aspects that may have a significant impact on the organisation’s reputation and may carry a financial and/or legal cost. These aspects are identified internally through the risk process and externally through ad hoc or routine engagements with a range of stakeholders
Medical Treatment Cases (MTCs)
A Medical Treatment Case is defined as a one-time treatment and subsequent observation of minor injuries by an appointed medical professional. Such minor injuries may include treatment by the application of bandages, antiseptic, ointment, irrigation of the eye to remove non-embedded foreign objects or the removal of foreign objects from the wound. MTCs never involve a loss of one or more calendar days after the injury, regardless of the injured person’s next rostered shift or where the injured is unable to perform one or more of their routine functions normally connected with their work due to a restriction applied by an appointed medical professional.
Merensky Reef
A horizon in the Critical Zone of the Bushveld Complex often containing economic grades of PGM. The term “Merensky Reef” as it is generally used refers to that part of the Merensky unit that is economically exploitable, regardless of the rock type
MF2
Two-stage milling and flotation circuit (mill-float, mill-float)
Mill grade
The value, usually expressed in parts per million or gram per tonne, of the contained mineralisation of economic interest in material delivered to the mill
Milling
Grinding of ore into the fine particles to expose the values minerals
Mimosa
Mimosa Platinum (Private) Limited
Mining Charter
Broad-based Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining Industry
Moz
Million ounces. All references to ounces are troy ounces with the factor being 31.10348 metric grams per ounce
MPRDA
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 28 of 2002, which came into effect in South Africa on 11 May 2004
MSZ
The Main Sulphide Zone (MSZ) is the PGM bearing horizon hosted by the Great Dyke, in addition to the economically exploitable PGMs there is associated base metal mineralisation. The MSZ is located 10 to 50 metres below the ultramafic/mafic contact in the P1 pyroxenite
Mt
Abbreviation for million metric tonnes
MW
Megawatt, a measure of electric power
NBI
National Business Institute
NGO
Non-governmental organisation
NIHL
Noise-induced hearing loss
Non-executive director
A director who is not involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation but is a nominee director of a material shareholder.
NUM
National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa
NYSE
New York Stock Exchange
Pegmatoid
An igneous rock that has the coarse-grained texture of a pegmatite but lacks graphic intergrowths
PGE
Platinum group elements comprising six elemental metals of the platinum group. The metals are platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium
PGI
Platinum Guild International
PGM
Platinum group metals being the metals derived from PGE
PLATO
South African Council for Professional and Technical Surveyors
Pyroxenite
An ultramafic igneous rock consisting or pyroxenes which are usually more than 90% by volume
RBH
Royal Bafokeng Holdings
RBN
Royal Bafokeng Nation
Reef
A local term for a tabular metalliferous mineral deposit
RWC
Restricted Work Case. This refers to an individual who is injured on duty and receives medical treatment and is deemed by medical staff to be fit to resume his/her normal duties, in a normal working place, but with specific restrictions for a specific time period
Reportable
A reportable injury is an injury which results in:
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the death of the employee; |
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an injury, to any employee, likely to be fatal; |
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unconsciousness, incapacitation from heatstroke or heat exhaustion, oxygen deficiency, the inhalation of fumes or poisonous gas, or electric short or electric burning accidents of or by any employee and which is not reportable in terms of paragraph (d), or as required by the OHS Act where applicable. |
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an injury which either incapacitates the injured employee from performing that employee’s normal occupation for a period totalling 14 days or more, or which causes the injured employee to suffer the loss of a joint, or a part of a joint, or sustain a permanent disability. |
Restricted Work Injuries (RWI)
A Restricted Work Injury is a work related injury which results in the employee being able to return to his or her permanently assigned workplace, to perform his or her permanently assigned work on the next calendar day, but where the injured is unable to perform one or more of their routine functions normally connected with their work due to a restriction applied by an appointed medical professional
SACNASP
South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions: The Natural Sciences Profession Act, 2003 (Act No 27 of 2003 (Act No 27 of 2003) was approved in 2003. The Act empowers SACNASP to register persons in certain prescribed categories of registration. Paragraph 9 of the SAMREC code refers to SACNASP; “A ‘Competent Person’ is a person who is registered with SACNASP, ECSA or PLATO, or is a Member or Fellow of the SAIMM, the GSSA or a Recognised Oversees Professional Organisation (ROPO)”
SAIMM
South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
SAMREC
The South African Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves
SAMREC Code
The South African Code for the Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves
SAMVAL
The South African Mineral Asset Valuation Committee
SAWIMA
South African Women in Mining Association
SED
Socio-economic development
Seismic surveys
A geographical exploration method whereby rock layers can be mapped based on the time taken for energy reflected from these layers to return to surface
SHEQ
Safety, Health and Environment Quality
SLP
Social and Labour Plan
Smelting
A smelting process to upgrade further the fraction containing the valuable minerals
SMMEs
Small, medium and micro enterprises
SSC committee
SAMREC/SAMVAL committee
Stoping
Underground excavations to effect the removal of ore
TB
Pulmonary tuberculosis, which in South Africa is considered an occupational illness when it is associated with the presence of dust in the workplace
Traditional council leadership
Elected/appointed members of a community according to customs and practices. The tenure of these leaders differ among communities. The chief King/Kgoshi/Kgosi or inKhosi is the head of the Traditional council leadership and the Chairman of the council
UASA
United Association of South Africa
UG2
A distinct chromitite horizon in the Critical Zone of the Bushveld Complex often containing economic grades of PGE
UNGC
United Nations Global Compact
VCT
Voluntary counselling and testing, in respect of HIV & Aids
WHO
World Health Organisation
WIM
All females including foreign nationals who are involved in core business activities of mining
Resource and Reserve definitions
SAMREC Code
The South African Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves sets out minimum standards, recommendations and guidelines for Public Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves in South Africa. SAMREC was established in 1998 and modelled its Code on the Australasian Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources ore Reserves (JORC Code). An updated version of SAMREC was published in 2007.
In terms of SAMREC, a Competent Person is one who is registered with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP), the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) or the South African Council for Professional and Technical Surveyors (PLATO), or is a member of or Fellow of the SAIMM, the GSSA or a Recognised Overseas Professional Organisation (ROPO). A complete list of such recognised organisations is promulgated by the SSC from time to time. The competent Person must comply with the provisions of the relevant promulgated Acts. A Competent Person must have a minimum of five years’ experience relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit or class of deposit under consideration and to the activity they undertake. If the Competent Person is estimating or supervising the estimation of Mineral Resources, the relevant experience must be in the estimation, assessment and evaluation of Mineral Resources. If the Competent Person is estimating or supervising the estimation of Mineral Reserves, the relevant experience must be in the estimation, assessment and evaluation of Mineral Reserves. Persons called upon to sign as a Competent Person must be clearly satisfied in their own minds that they are able to face their peers and demonstrate competence in the commodity, type of deposit and situation under consideration.
Mineral Resource
A Mineral Resource is a concentration (or occurrence) of material of economic interest in or on the Earth’s crust in such form, quality and quantity that there are reasonable and realistic prospects for eventual economic extraction. The location, quantity, grade, continuity and other geological characteristics of a Mineral Resource are known, estimated from specific geological evidence and knowledge, or interpreted from a well constrained and portrayed geological model. Mineral Resources are subdivided, in order of increasing confidence in respect of geoscientific evidence, into Inferred, Indicated and Measured categories.
Inferred Mineral Resource
An Inferred Mineral Resource is that part of a Mineral Resource for which tonnage, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a low level of confidence.It is inferred from geological evidence and assumed but not verified geological and/or grade continuity. It is based on information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes that may be limited or of uncertain quality and reliability.
Indicated Mineral Resource
An Indicated Mineral Resource is that part of a Mineral Resource for which tonnage, densities, shape, physical characteristics, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a reasonable level of confidence. It is based on exploration, sampling and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits, workings and drill holes. The locations are too widely or inappropriately spaced to confirm geological and/or grade continuity but are spaced closely enough for continuity to be assumed.
Measured Mineral Resource
A Measured Mineral Resource is that part of a Mineral Resource for which tonnage, densities, shape, physical characteristics, grade and mineral content can be estimated with a high level of confidence. It is based on detailed and reliable exploration, sampling and testing information gathered through appropriate techniques from locations such as outcrops, trenches, pits. Working and drill holes. The locations are spaced closely enough to confirm geological and grade continuity.
Mineral Reserve
A Mineral Reserve is the economically mineable material derived from a Measured and/or Indicated Mineral resource, it is inclusive of diluting materials and allows for losses that may occur when the material is mined. Appropriate assessments, which may include feasibility studies, have been carried out, including consideration of, and modification by, realistically assumed mining, metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and government factors. These assessments demonstrate at the time of reporting that extraction is reasonably justified. Mineral Reserves are sub-divided in order of increasing confidence into Probable Mineral Reserves and Proved Mineral Reserves.
Probable Mineral Reserve
A Probable mineral Reserve is the economically mineable material derived from a measured and/or Indicated Mineral Resource. It is estimated with a lower level of confidence than a Proved Mineral Reserve. It is inclusive of diluting materials and allows for losses that may occur when the material is mined. Appropriate assessments, which may include feasibility studies, have been carried out, including consideration of, and modification by, realistically assumed mining, metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and governmental factors. These assessments demonstrate at the time of reporting that extraction is reasonably justified.
Proved Mineral Reserve
A Proved Mineral Reserve is the economically mineable material derived from a measured Mineral Resource. It is estimated with a high level of confidence. It is inclusive of diluting material and allows for losses that may occur when the material is mined. Appropriate assessments, which may include feasibility studies, have been carried out, including consideration of and modification by realistically assumed mining, metallurgical, economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social and governmental factors. These assessments demonstrate at the time reporting that extraction is reasonably justified.
Basis of calculating both direct and indirect energy and resulting CO2 emissions
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Basis of calculation |
| Indirect energy |
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Calculated by multiplying MWh by 3.6 (basic principles) to get GJ |
| Indirect CO2 |
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Eskom Integrated Report FY2010 |
| Direct energy from diesel, petrol and IBO |
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2009 DEFRA Guidelines |
| Direct CO2 from diesel, petrol and IBO |
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2009 DEFRA Guidelines |
| Direct energy from Sasol gas |
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From Sasol gas (supplier) |
| Direct CO2 from Sasol gas |
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From Sasol gas (supplier) |
| Direct energy from coal consumption |
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Supplier analysis |
| Direct CO2 from coal consumption |
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Supplier analysis |
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