South Africa’s worst-ever power blackouts are threatening platinum and palladium supplies in the top miner, both now and in the years ahead.
Impala Platinum mine and processing plant at Rustenberg in South Africa in March and April 2009.
“If things don’t get better soon then we are likely to have a worse period this year than last,” Impala spokesman Johan Theron said in an interview. “If it gets worse it will get to a point when you have certain days where we will stop sending people underground.” Mining companies are scaling down some surface activities and then catching up when power supplies are less tight — sometimes during the night and weekends — Impala’s Theron said.
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