Sibanye-Stillwater has launched its long-anticipated investment in battery minerals, buying a one-third stake in a Finnish company for R535m and securing an option to take a majority position.

Sibanye CEO Neal Froneman has spoken for a few years of diversifying the world’s largest primary producer of platinum group metals and a major gold miner into battery minerals to tap into the greening of the global economy...

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