If the speculation is true that Jean Nel is to be the next CE of Impala Platinum (Implats), the world’s second-largest miner of that metal, there are mixed blessings. Nel is highly regarded after his tenure as CE at Aquarius Platinum, which has mines in SA and Zimbabwe. At Aquarius, where the Kroondal and Mimosa mines are in shared arrangements with Anglo American Platinum and Implats, respectively, the fate of the company was wrapped up in what bigger partners wanted to do, never an easy situation for a quiet but proud CE. Nel, a lawyer, might not have the mining engineering qualifications of outgoing Implats CE Terence Goodlace, but at Aquarius he gathered a strong team around him and got on with the business of doing well, notching up consecutive quarterly production records at Kroondal. During Nel’s tenure at Aquarius, the labour situation was relatively calm during the storm that raged around it as the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) displaced the Natio...
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