mine · South Africa
Mogalakwena
The largest open-pit platinum group metal operation in the world.
OperatingProduction
Earthern Project Score
80 / 100
Operator
Anglo American Platinum
Country
South Africa
Mine life
30 yrs
Capex
—
Profile
Resource, economics and jurisdiction
- Resource
- Very large shallow PGM resource on the northern Bushveld limb.
- Production
- A leading global source of platinum, palladium and rhodium.
- Economics
- Open-pit mining gives a cost advantage over deep conventional PGM mines.
- Infrastructure
- On-site concentrator with regional smelting and refining.
- Jurisdiction
- Moderate risk
- Ownership
- Anglo American Platinum 100%
- Region
- Limpopo
Overview
What this asset is
The largest open-pit platinum group metal operation in the world.
Methodology
Earthern Project Score 80
Version v0.1
- Resource Quality
- 88 (weight 1.2) — Grade, continuity and metallurgical complexity of the resource.
- Project Scale
- 77 (weight 1) — Annual output potential relative to the global market for its primary mineral.
- Development Stage
- 74 (weight 0.9) — How far the asset has advanced toward or through production.
- Jurisdiction
- 76 (weight 1.1) — Political stability, permitting predictability and rule of law.
- Infrastructure
- 78 (weight 0.9) — Access to power, water, transport and processing capacity.
- Economics
- 86 (weight 1.2) — Cost position and margin resilience through the price cycle.
- Strategic Importance
- 84 (weight 1) — Relevance to national critical mineral strategies and allied supply chains.
- Supply-Chain Value
- 82 (weight 1) — Whether the asset relieves a genuine downstream bottleneck.
- Sustainability
- 76 (weight 0.9) — Carbon intensity, water use, tailings approach and community standing.
- Execution Risk
- 75 (weight 1) — Technical, financing and schedule risk to reaching nameplate output. Higher is lower risk.
Materials
Minerals produced
Assets