JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Junior miner Sylvania Platinum has submitted its mining right application for the Volspruit platinum-group metals project in Limpopo.

The company, which plans to build a mine and concentrator, as well as a smelter and refinery project, said it expects the Department of Mineral Resources to announce its decision in 2012.

The smelter and refinery part of the project is planned in a 50:50 partnership with Jubilee Platinum.

Sylvania would submit an environmental scoping document as part of the environmental-impact assessment, by the middle of October.

“The ability to proceed with the project now depends on the granting of the mining right, as well as the approval for the environmental management plan. A decision on both these submissions is due during 2012,” the company said.
 

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