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Anglo Platinum

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Anglo Platinum Limited is listed on the JSE Limited and is the sole listed entity for the Group. It has a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. International depositary receipts for the Company's shares are listed on the Brussels bourse.

The Group's main operating mines include Rustenburg Platinum Mines¹ (RPM) Rustenburg Section, Amandelbult Section and Union Section (85% owned), as well as Potgietersrust Platinums Limited (PPRust) (now Mogalakwena Section), Twickenham and Lebowa Platinum Mines Limited (LPM).

The Group is also in joint ventures and associations with: African Rainbow Minerals Platinum, a historically disadvantaged South African (HDSA) mining company, to operate the Modikwa Platinum Mine; Royal Bafokeng Resources, an HDSA partner, over the combined Bafokeng-Rasimone Platinum Mine (BRPM)/ Styldrift properties; the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela traditional community who hold a 15% share in Union Mine; Lonmin Platinum and HDSA partners, the Bapo Ba Mogale tribe and Mvelaphanda, over the Pandora PGM reserves; Xstrata to operate the Mototolo Mine and has joint venture agreements with Aquarius Platinum (South Africa), covering the shallow reserves of its Kroondal and Marikana mines contiguous to RPM Rustenburg Section.

The Group's smelting and refining operations are wholly owned through RPM and situated in South Africa. These operations treat concentrates and matte from subsidiaries and from joint ventures.

The Group announced its intention to conclude two major BEE transactions on

4 September 2007 with existing empowerment partners, Mvelaphanda Resources Limited and Anooraq Resources Corporation. The deals when successfully concluded will result in the creation of two major independently HDSA managed and controlled PGM producers over the Lebowa Platinum Mines, Ga-Phasha, Booysendal and Northam assets.

In Zimbabwe, the Group is developing the Unki platinum mine.

Elsewhere in the world, the Group is involved in exploration in Canada, Russia, Brazil and China. The Group has a representative office in Beijing.

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