JUBILEE Platinum wants to make a decision in September on whether to treat platinum-bearing material at a third-party plant or to build its own dedicated concentrator at one of two chrome tailings retreatment projects it will have in production by the end of 2016.Jubilee has already started extracting chrome from tailings at the Dilokong chrome mine near Steelpoort, upgrading the grade of platinum per tonne of processed material and making a saleable product.CEO Leon Coetzer said on Wednesday that Jubilee now had the option of generating immediate revenue from the platinum-bearing material by using one of three third-partiy plants that were on offer or building its own concentrator, leading to a seven-month wait for platinum revenue.At Dilokong, Jubilee had R400m of platinum in low-grade saleable material, but it wanted to raise the concentration of the metal in the material to realise a higher price for it, he said.It would be silly of the Jubilee board not to consider a third-part...
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