Valterra Platinum
company
Valterra Platinum Limited (formerly Anglo American Platinum Limited) is a South African mining company, and the world's largest primary producer of platinum; accounting for about 38% of the world's annual supply. It was demerged from Anglo American on 31 May 2025.
Based in Johannesburg, Gauteng, most of the group's operations lie to the northwest and northeast of the city. A majority of the company's operations take place in the Bushveld Igneous Complex, a large region that contains a range of mineral commodities including chromium, vanadium, titaniferous magnetite and platinum group metals.
History
The company was formed when Johannesburg Consolidated Investments unbundled in 1995. Its platinum interests became Amplats, later renamed Anglo American Platinum. Anglo American was the company's majority shareholder.
On 5 October 2012, Anglo American Platinum made 12,967 striking South African miners redundant. In July 2014, Amplats announced it would sell many of its South African mines following the negative effect of five months' worth of strikes on the firm's hopes of becoming profitable.
The company was demerged from Anglo American, as Valterra Platinum, on 31 May 2025.
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