But these are the kind of projects that are coming back on stream. It also means people are going to be spending money on projects that were more advanced or they're going to fast-track stuff that they've got on the books. |
Higher output at a handful of ramp-up projects combined with the start of full scale mining at Two Rivers, should see platinum volumes in 2006 grow by 8 percent year-on-year. |
Many of these projects, which were discovered in the mid-1990s or even earlier, were put on the shelf when prices drifted below US$350. But these are the kind of projects that are coming back on stream. |