JOHANNESBURG, April 25 (Reuters) – Royal Bafokeng Platinum
, a junior producer of the precious metal, said on
Wednesday that its first quarter output was hit by increased
safety stoppages, the latest company in the sector to report
such a trend.
A total of 532,000 tonnes of ore was delivered to the
concentrators in the three months to end March, a three percent
drop from the delivered tonnage in the same quarter of last
year, the group said in its quarterly production report.
RBPlat said safety-related stoppages had cost the company an
estimated 61,618 tonnes in lost output in the quarter compared
with 28,925 tonnes a year ago.
(Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas, editing by Ed Stoddard)
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