Deep in Johannesburg’s golden heart lies Sibanye-Stillwater Gold Division, one of South Africa’s biggest gold-producers and the venue for MTE’s Sibanye-Stillwater Gold Division expo.
Sibanye-Stillwater Gold Division mines extract and process gold-bearing ore to produce beneficiated product ore, which is refined further. The ore is refined into gold bars with a purity of at least 99.9%. The refinery process takes place at Rand Refinery, in which Sibanye-Stillwater holds a 33% interest and is one of the largest refineries in Africa and the world.
Among the operations owned by Sibanye-Stillwater is the Kloof ultradeep level gold mine. As an established mine, infrastructure for Kloof is permanent with extensive underground infrastructure for the transportation of personnel, equipment and materials. The reef is accessed via vertical shafts at approximately 3 347m below surface. Beneficiation happens via two gold processing plants – the No. 1 carbon-in-pulp plant processes primarily surface rock dump material and the No. 2 carbon-in-pulp plant processes primarily underground ore at a rate of 347 tonnes a day. Other operations operated by Sibanye-Stillwater include underground operations at Driefontein and surface mining at Cooke.