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Rank Country/Region Platinum production (kilograms) Year World 180,000 2019 1: South Africa: 130,000 2019 2: Russia: 22,000 2019 3: Zimbabwe: 15,000 2019 4: Canada
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Anglo American Platinum Limited (JSE: AMS) is the world's largest primary producer of platinum, accounting for about 38% of the world's annual supply. Based in South Africa , most of the group's operations lie to the northwest and northeast of Johannesburg .
Anglo American plc is a British multinational mining company with headquarters in London, England.It is the world's largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world output, as well as being a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore, polyhalite and steelmaking coal.
Platinum [19] South Africa Russia: List of countries by platinum production: Silver [20] Mexico China: List of countries by silver production: Tin [21] China Indonesia: List of countries by tin production: Titanium [22] China Japan: List of countries by titanium production: Vanadium [23] China Russia: List of countries by vanadium production ...
In 2014, a five-month-long platinum strike had resulted in the deaths of four people, [22] six stabbings, [23] and 24 billion rand ($2.25 billion) in lost revenue for the South African platinum industry. The GDP of South Africa contracted in the first quarter of 2014, pulled down by the steepest drop in mining production (25% of which 19% was ...
In 2003, Implats' parent company Gencor completed its "unbundling" after having amalgamated with Gold Fields in 1998. [11] Shareholders were given 8.8 Implats shares for every 100 Gencor shares they held. [12] In March 2011, the government of Zimbabwe implemented laws which required local ownership of mining companies.
Platinum is a chemical element; it has symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name originates from Spanish platina, a diminutive of plata "silver". [7] [8] Platinum is a member of the platinum group of elements and group 10 of the periodic table of ...