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Eskom assures SA that there was no radiation leak at Koeberg

Northam Platinum opened the world's deepest raise-bored PGM shaft at the Zondereinde mine. Image supplied.

World’s deepest raise-bored PGM shaft opens at Northam’s Zondereinde mine

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