Entire Annual Report - Anglo American Platinum

Review of Operations – Mining" Business Unit ReportLebowa Platinum Mines (continued)D A EvertJ J la GrangeJ W SteenkampH C van VuurenLebowa Platinum MinesSAFETYPeriod Number Fatality Number Reportable Fall of Truck andof rate (1) of rate (1) ground tram rate (2)fatalities reportables rate (2)Year ended31 December2000 2 0,81 7 2,85 0,49 0,40Year ended31 December1999 2 0,86 10 4,32 1,08 0,43(1) Annual frequency rate per 1 000 employees at work per month.(2) Annual frequency rate per 1 000 underground employees at work per month.Safety statistics include all contractors’ safety performance.MiningContinued emphasis has been placed on improving “Mining Optimisation”, abaseline assessment of current practices which highlighted areas of underperformance.Strategies have been developed to ensure improvements infrequency of blasting and advance per blast.The Middelpunt Hill capital development moved from a project phase into aproduction phase with the commissioning of the 50 000 tons per monthconcentrator plant. Current mining of the UG2 ore from three adits inMiddelpunt Hill is being done in a highly mechanised environment withsuperior efficiencies being attained.MINING CAPITAL EXPENDITURECapital expenditure for 2000 was R103,0 million. A total of R83,1 million wasexpended on the Middelpunt Hill expansion project.The total projected expenditure for 2001 is R125,0 million, includingR40,0 million for a Merensky decline section to replace existing Merenskyoutput and R10,9 million for additional housing.Stope drill rig98