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  November 2011
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Tamboti

The Tamboti Project is located down-dip of the Two Rivers mine and approximately 45km to the south-west of Burgersfort on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex. In broad terms, the geological succession is similar to that of other areas of the eastern limb and of Two Rivers in particular. Both the Merensky Reef and underlying UG2 Reef occur at the Tamboti Project and are affected by numerous faults. The vertical separation between the Merensky and UG2 Reefs is around 160m. The Steelpoortpark granite occurs in the south-western part of the area.

Two distinct reef facies (reef types) have been defined for the UG2 Reef at Tamboti, namely the ‘normal facies’ with a thick main chromitite layer and a ‘split reef’, characterised by an internal pyroxenite/norite lens.

 

Resource and Reserves

  Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Statement 2010

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The Merensky Reef is the upper portion of a pyroxenite layer, with a chromitite stringer close to the contact with the hanging wall and mineralisation decreasing from the chromitite stringer into the hanging wall and footwall.

Impala holds a prospecting right over a total of 8 524ha on a large portion of the farms Tweefontein and Kalkfontein, as well as the farm Buffelshoek; this constitutes the Tamboti Project. No Merensky Reef is present on Tweefontein and the UG2 Reef occurs only on a small portion of this farm. The total mineral rights holding at Kalkfonteinincreased by some 34% due to the DMR awarding the section 102 application for the historic undivided shareholding on certain portions of the farm Kalkfontien . This clarified the ambiguity regarding ownership. The agreements with junior resource company, Kameni and African Rainbow Minerals were recorded in the 2009 annual report.

 

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