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Impala Rustenburg mine

Impala Rustenburg mine, South Africa. Producing, mining platinum.

Why Impala Rustenburg is famous

The Impala Rustenburg mine near Rustenburg in North West Province produced about 38,500 kg of PGMs and gold in 2020, against 43,800 kg in 2019. It works PGM ore of the Bushveld Complex.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 16 August 2012Marikana killings3

What kind of deposit

Layered intrusion PGM and chromite (Bushveld type)

Impala Rustenburg today

Where platinum is mined todayMining in South Africa

Where next

Mines

Same kind of depositMogalakwenaBoth work the Bushveld Complex: Impala near Rustenburg, Mogalakwena in the Northern Limb.1

Events

Led toMarikana killingsRead what happened near Impala Rustenburg: Marikana killings.1

Deposit types

An example ofLayered intrusion PGM and chromite (Bushveld type)Impala Rustenburg belongs to the layered intrusion pgm and chromite family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. 2020-21 Minerals Yearbook, South Africa (advance release) US Geological Survey
  2. Impala Platinum (mine) (Q137938339) Wikidata
  3. Marikana Commission of Inquiry South African History Online
  4. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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