Power outages implemented by State-owned power utility Eskom continued to negatively impact on precious metals miner Anglo American Platinum’s (Amplats’) platinum-group metals (PGMs) production for 2019, resulting in an overall unrecoverable loss of 38 000 oz of PGMs for the year. In the first half of the year, Amplats’ own-managed mines lost 18 000 oz of PGMs production owing to power outages that required the mines to shut down,.
