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“ We had to leverage the existing shaft infrastructure , and build a second bock cave under the existing one , connect them all up and still make a positive business case out of it !”
– Nick Fouché has been a condition of any contract at the Lift II project that all unskilled and 80 percent semi-skilled labour is sourced from the Ba-Phalaborwa district ’ s of 150,000 population . It ’ s a policy with real impact in a region with upward of 50 percent unemployment . I think that is one project that has found real traction ,” he concludes . “ I am proud of what we have done with the magnetite upgrade , the Lift II construction , the downstream plant and the communities . Palabora is a flagship in southern Africa .”
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