The Stillwater Operation include the Stillwater mine (inclusive of the Stillwater East expansion project, which is under development), the East Boulder mine, two concentrator plants, and the surrounding PGM mining claims located near the town of Nye. In addition, the Sibanye-Stillwater Ltd. owns and operates a metallurgical smelter and base metals refinery complex situated in the town of Columbus, Montana, which also serves as the base for PGM recycling business, which recovers PGMs from recycled catalytic converters.
In 2022, regional flooding in Montana prevented access to the Stillwater mine. Production was suspended for 7 weeks (June-July), access is now restored.
Experienced a shaft overwind incident at the Stillwater mine in March 2023 that caused the suspension of production operations, temporarily interrupting momentum. |