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Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Report 2016 SECTION 01 GROUP OVERVIEW HEADLINE NUMBERS 2016 GOLD Mineral Resources 102.03Moz Mineral Reserves 28.69Moz URANIUM Mineral Resources 159.51Mlb Mineral Reserves 113.23Mlb ASSURANCE 4E PGM With Sibanye’s asset base growing and diversifying the Group Mineral Resources is committed to ensuring integrity and responsibility when reporting Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves. 126.48Moz This is achieved through compliant public reporting and Mineral Reserves maintaining internal regulatory measures of the highest standard allowing for competency, transparency and 23.19Moz materiality, when informing all stakeholders of the Group’s fundamental position in the industry. Kroondal processing plant feed IFC Assurance and headline numbers 2016 SECTION 01 GROUP OVERVIEW 3 Introduction 5 Location 6 Headline numbers 8 Corporate governance 14 Operations and projects SECTION 02 GOLD DIVISION 16 Overview Operations 28 Beatrix 35 Cooke 41 Driefontein 47 Kloof Projects 54 Burnstone 58 West Rand Tailings Retreatment 61 Southern Orange Free State 66 Beisa North SECTION 03 PLATINUM DIVISION CONTENTS 68 Overview Operations 76 Kroondal 84 Rustenburg 96 Mimosa Projects 103 Sheba’s Ridge 103 Zondernaam 103 Vygenhoek 104 Millenium/Blue Ridge SECTION 04 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 108 Professional organisations 108 SAMREC code definitions 110 Glossary of terms 111 Conversion table 112 Abbreviations 113 Disclaimer 116 Administrative and corporate information Sibanye Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves 2016 1 SECTION 01 GROUP OVERVIEW GROUP OVERVIEW Driefontein 10 Shaft 2 Sibanye Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves 2016 SECTION 01 GROUP OVERVIEW INTRODUCTION Sibanye has two divisions: the Gold Division and the newly acquired Platinum Division. The Gold Division comprises four underground and surface operations producing gold in South Africa – Cooke, Driefontein and Kloof Operations in the West Wits region and Beatrix Operation in the southern Free State. In addition to its mining activities, Sibanye owns and manages significant extraction and processing facilities at its operations where gold-bearing COMMITMENT ore is treated and beneficiated. Three significant projects are under current development Despite the fluctuating while three major projects are in study phase. commodity prices The Platinum Division, the platinum group metals (PGM) division of Sibanye, acquired Aquarius Platinum Limited (Aquarius) in April 2016. The Platinum Division, announced influencing the mining on 9 September, 2015 that it had entered into a series of agreements to acquire the industry, Sibanye (the Rustenburg Operations from Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited. The transaction, Group) has diversified transferring Rustenburg Operations to Sibanye was concluded in November 2016. Neither Aquarius nor Anglo American Platinum (AAP), the previous owner of the Rustenburg into a multi-commodity Operations, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and therefore, neither was mining company, required to, nor did, comply with the requirements of the SEC’s Industry Guide 7 (Guide 7) at the time of publishing their Mineral Reserves on 30 June 2015 and 31 December 2015, strengthening its respectively. Under Sibanye, the 2016 Mineral Reserve estimates are SEC compliant. position in the South The geology and evaluation models of the Group’s operational assets have been updated to African mining industry, reflect the latest available data and have proved to be stable year-on-year. Sibanye Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve protocols have been implemented at all operations and while maintaining project portfolios. Operational models are coupled with an integrated and holistic mine its core value: design and scheduled plan that are based on historic and expected performance levels. to improve lives. The Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, and the mineral asset valuations supporting the Mineral Reserve estimates, have been prepared in compliance with and to the extent required by the South African Code for the Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (the SAMREC Code), 2016 edition the South African Code for the Reporting of Mineral Asset Valuation (SAMVAL Code) 2016 edition. At 31 December 2016 Sibanye had total attributable Mineral Resources, inclusive of projects, of 102.0Moz of gold, 159.5Mlb of uranium, and 126.5Moz of 4E PGM (platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), rhodium (Rd) and gold (Au)). Non-South African Mineral Resources account for 7.0Moz of 4E PGM (included above). Ore silos feed into 1 plant Sibanye Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves 2016 3 SECTION 01 GROUP OVERVIEW INTRODUCTION CONTINUED IMPORTANT NOTICES • The SEC permits mining companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only those mineral deposits that a company can economically and legally exploit. Certain terms are used in this report, such as ‘Mineral Resources’, that the SEC guidelines strictly prohibit companies from including in filings. United States investors are urged to closely consider the disclosure in the Form 20-F submission • Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves reported are managed by Sibanye unless otherwise stated • All Mineral Resource estimates stated are inclusive of Mineral Reserves. • Sibanye acquired the Kroondal Operations in April 2016 and the Rustenburg Operations in November 2016. Previous public reporting of the Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves from these operations were not required to be reported in line with SEC guidelines. However, current reporting, as at 31 December 2016, is SEC compliant and as a result material differences have been recorded • Rounding-off of figures in this report may result in minor computational discrepancies. Where this occurs it is not deemed significant • The 31 December 2016 Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves are net of depletion • Above infrastructure (AI) is that part of the Mineral Resources and/or Mineral Reserves which is above the lowest mining level and can be accessed via the current mine infrastructure (shafts and underground haulages) • Below infrastructure (BI) is that part of the Mineral Resources and/or Mineral Reserves which is below the lowest mining level and can only be accessed following approved capital expenditure • Platinum Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve reporting only accounts for the 4E PGMs, although the other metals (ruthenium, iridium and base metals) are extracted in conjunction with these PGMs • With the exception of Rustenburg Operations (100% attributable), the Kroondal and Mimosa Operations report as follows: • Kroondal Pool and Share Agreement (PSA) with AAP – 50% attributable • Mimosa – 50% attributable, not managed • Kroondal Extension – mined under a royalty agreement with AAP of which the Kroondal Operations have exclusive Mining Rights (MR). These are included in the Kroondal LoM plan and are reported as (50%) attributable to Sibanye Internal technical reviews have been conducted by the Competent Persons who gave their consent for the disclosure of the 2016 Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve statement. All have sufficient experience relative to the type and style of mineral deposit under consideration and are full-time employees of Sibanye. Kroondal processing plant 4 Sibanye Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves 2016 SECTION 01 GROUP OVERVIEW LOCATION Sibanye’s gold producing assets are located throughout the Witwatersrand Basin and LOCATION OF our platinum producing assets are along the Western Limb of the Bushveld Complex in SIBANYE’S OPERATIONS South Africa, near Rustenburg, and in the south of the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe. AND PROJECTS GOLD DIVISION Bushveld Complex Great Dyke A WEST WITS LINE Witwatersrand Basin OPERATION Vredefort Dome Harare Kloof Platinum operations ZIMBABWE Cooke Gold operations Mutare Sibanye gold projects Driefontein Sibanye platinum projects Bulawayo PROJECT National roads (N) F WRTRP Regional roads (R) B SOUTH RAND PROJECT ZIMBABWE OPERATION BOTSWANA Mimosa (50% attributable) Burnstone C FREE STATE OPERATION Beatrix N1 PROJECT SOFS: De Bron Merriespruit Bloemhoek Limpopo Beisa North PLATINUM DIVISION D WESTERN LIMB OPERATION E Kroondal (50% attributable) Rustenburg Rustenburg D Mpumalanga E EASTERN LIMB Johannesburg North West Westonaria N17 PROJECT Carletonville A Sheba’s Ridge Potchefstroom Balfour Zondernaam N12 B Vygenhoek Vredefort Millenium/Blue Ridge F ZIMBABWE (GREAT DYKE) R34 OPERATION N3 Welkom Mimosa (50% attributable) Virginia C SOUTH AFRICA R30 Theunissen KwaZulu-Natal Free State Bloemfontein T N LESOTHO 0 100km 200km Northern Cape Sibanye Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves 2016 5 Durban N1 Eastern Cape Western Cape Cape Town SECTION 01 GROUP OVERVIEW HEADLINE NUMBERS GOLD DIVISION CAPEX OPERATING PROFIT GOLD PRODUCED MAIN DEVELOPMENT AREA MINED YIELD Beatrix R597m R1,452m 0.323Moz 21,281m 437,216m2 2.3g/t Beatrix Cooke R337m R(4)m 0.182Moz 7,115m 175,097m2 1.1g/t Cooke Driefontein R994m R3,002m 0.519Moz 13,456m 311,155m2 2.7g/t Driefontein Kloof R1,130m R1,914m 0.489Moz 16,166m 278,409m2 3.3g/t Kloof 31 December 20151 12 months production depletion Gold Mineral Resources 98.790Moz Gold Mineral Resources 1.595Moz Gold Mineral Reserves 30.988Moz Gold Mineral Reserves 1.600Moz Uranium Mineral Resources 229.852Mlb Uranium Mineral Resources 0.283Mlb Uranium Mineral Reserves 113.814Mlb Uranium Mineral Reserves 0.146Mlb 4E PGM Mineral Resources 141.487Moz 4E PGM Mineral Resources 1.880Moz 4E PGM Mineral Reserves1 35.703Moz 4E PGM Mineral Reserves 1.716Moz PLATINUM
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