The Two Rivers mine is a large
bord and pillar
Room and pillar or pillar and stall is a variant of breast stoping. It is a mining system in which the mined material is extracted across a horizontal plane, creating horizontal arrays of rooms and pillars. To do this, "rooms" of ore are dug out w ...
mine located in the north-eastern part of
South Africa in
Steelpoort,
Limpopo. Two Rivers represents one of the largest
platinum reserves in
South Africa having estimated reserves of 100 million tonnes of ore grading 1.8 gr/t
platinum, 1.07 gr/t
palladium and minor grades of
gold,
rhodium,
ruthenium and
iridium.
The mine has reserves of 5.76 million
oz of platinum and 3.2 million
oz of palladium and produces around 150,000 oz of platinum/year and 90,000 oz of palladium/year.
References
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Platinum mines in South Africa
Economy of Limpopo
Palladium mines