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  November 2010
Zimplats Platinum fact sheet
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Resources & Reserves

Zimplats

Zimplats’ Ngezi mine is located south-west of Harare and exploits the Sebakwe sub-chamber of the Hartley Complex in the Great Dyke.Also in the Hartley Complex is the Hartley Mine, but in the Darwendale sub-chamber, 77km to the north of Ngezi. The Hartley Complex is about 100km long and contains approximately 80% of Zimbabwe's PGM Mineral Resources. The north-north-east-trending layered igneous rocks within the basin dip at between 5° and 20° near the margins and flatten out near the centre.

The platinum-bearing Main Sulphide Zone (MSZ) lies between 5 and 50m below the base of the mafic sequence. The MSZ is a continuous layer between 2 and 10m thick that forms an elongated basin.

  

Resource and Reserves

  Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Statement 2010

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View Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve Statement in our integrated annual report to our stakeholders for this financial year.  
   
 

Peak values for the base metals and various PGMs are offset vertically with palladium at the base, platinum in the centre and nickel above. It is difficult to visually identify the MSZ.

Zimplats holds mining rights over two areas comprising a total of 48 500ha across the Hartley Complex in the Great Dyke. Underground stoping at Zimplats currently consists of mechanisedbord and pillar layouts. Underground production is presently sourced from Portals 1, 2 and 4; establishment of a fourth underground section at Portal 3 will commence in FY2011.  Opencast mining remains suspended due to economic considerations.

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