RBPlat sees Styldrift’s first output by 2015

[miningmx.com] — ROYAL Bafokeng Platinum said on Friday it expects to have first production at its Styldrift 1 project in the second quarter of 2015.

RBPlat, a black-controlled, mid-tier producer of platinum group metals, said in a presentation posted on its website that steady production at the new mine is expected by the second quarter of 2017.

The company said in March this year that Styldrift 1 should more than double its output to 611,000 ounces of “4E platinum group metals”, which includes platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold, by the end of 2017.