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Platinum Group Metals Ltd. Announces Mining Right Granted for Waterberg Joint Venture Palladium, Platinum, Gold and Rhodium Mine
Vancouver, British Columbia and Johannesburg, South Africa--(Newsfile Corp. - February 3, 2021...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Platinum Group Metals Ltd. Announces Mining Right Granted for Waterberg Joint Venture Palladium, Platinum, Gold and Rhodium MineVancouver, British Columbia and Johannesburg, South Africa--(Newsfile Corp. - February 3, 2021) - Platinum Group Metals Ltd. (TSX: PTM) (NYSE American: PLG) (\"Platinum Group\" \"PTM\" or the \"Company\") reports that the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (\"DMRE\") of South Africa has notified the Company in writing that the Waterberg JV Resources (Pty) Ltd. Mining Right for the Waterberg Project (the \"Waterberg Mining Right\") has been granted. The Waterberg Project is located on the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, approximately 85 km north of the town of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus). A definitive feasibility study announced in September 2019 (the \"Waterberg DFS\") models the Waterberg mine as a low cost, large-scale, shallow, decline-accessible, mechanised, palladium, platinum, gold and rhodium (\"4E\" or \"PGM\") mine with 19.5 million 4E ounces in proven and probable mineral reserves(1) and projects that the mine will produce 420,000 4E ounces per year at a steady state. The current basket price per 4E ounce of Waterberg PGMs is approximately US $2,100 and the Waterberg DFS estimated the life of mine cash cost per 4E ounce at US $640. For further details, please refer to the Waterberg DFS (\"Waterberg Project Definitive Feasibility Study and Mineral Resource Update - Bushveld Complex, South Africa\" dated October 4, 2019, with an effective date for resources and reserves of September 4, 2019).The Waterberg Mining Right has been granted in terms of section 23(1) of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (2002). After notarial execution the Waterberg Mining Right will be registered at the Mining and Petroleum Titles Registration Office in South Africa. The Waterberg Mining Right was issued for an initial period of 30 years and may be renewed for further periods, each of which may not exceed 30 years at a time. Mining will be subject to the Environmental Authorization granted on November 10, 2020, Water Use Licenses and compliance with other legislation on an ongoing basis. R. Michael Jones, President and CEO of Platinum Group Metals Ltd., said, \"We are very pleased to be granted a mining right in a positive PGM market, providing the opportunity to ...