{"id":1188128,"date":"2020-06-03T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1025989"},"modified":"2020-06-03T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:31:36","slug":"amplats-shuts-pgm-unit-after-water-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1188128","title":{"rendered":"Amplats shuts PGM unit after water leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo American Platinum has shut down its\u00a0Phase B unit of the Anglo Converter Plant in Rustenburg after a  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/angloamericanplatinum.com\/media\/press-releases\/2020\/03-06-2020\" >water leak<\/a> in the high-pressure cooling section detected on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our systems allowed us to bring the unit down pro-actively and safely. All employees evacuated the area safely,&#8221; Amplats said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Anglo American Platinum <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/amplats-continues-repairs-on-processing-facilities-despite-lockdown\/\" >announced<\/a> the temporary shutdown of the entire Anglo Converter Plant, part of the chain of processing facilities, and declared force majeure.<\/p>\n<p>The Company\u2019s ACP phase A converter plant at the Waterval smelter in Rustenburg, North West Province, was also damaged following an explosion within the converter on February 10. The phase B unit was commissioned to take over from the phase A plant.<\/p>\n<p>The Johannesburg-listed miner last month completed repairs to the unit and lifted the force majeure.<\/p>\n<p>Further updates will be given as soon as more information is available, expected early next week, Amplats said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company has shut its Anglo Converter Plant in Rustenburg only a week after repairing a leak at one of the facility&rsquo;s units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,2640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188129,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188128\/revisions\/1188129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}