Palabora Mining Company Limited
Palabora Mining Company Limited extracts and beneficiates copper and vermiculite from its mines in the Limpopo Province. The company was incorporated in South Africa in August 1956. It is South Africa’s only producer of refined copper. The mining of the company’s copper ore-body commenced in 1956. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, the company’s open-pit copper mine and associated processing plants produced over 2, 7 million tones of copper.
The primary product of the company is copper, together with by-products, which include magnetite, nickel sulphate, anode slimes, sulphuric acid and vermiculite. The Industrial Minerals division produces and markets vermiculite.
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