JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Mine-to-metals specialist Jubilee Platinum has achieved the first chromite production at its Hernic ferrochrome project, following the successful tie-in of the chromite recovery plant into the operational stream.
Commissioning of the platinum group metals (PGMs) recovery plant – the natural succession of the chromite recovery plant tailings – will now become the focus of the dual-listed firm.
“I am very pleased that we have achieved the chromite production milestone and we are now busily implementing the commissioning phase of the platinum recovery plant,” Jubilee CEO Leon Coetzer said in a statement.
At full production, the project is expected to be the largest PGM beneficiation plant of surface chrome tailings in South Africa, targeting the processing of 55 000 t/m of chrome and PGM-rich material.