Integrated Annual Report 2011
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Glossary of terms and acronyms

ABET Adult Basic Education and Training
AIM London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market
ALSI JSE’s All Share Index
BEE Black economic empowerment
CPR Competent Person’s Report
DBT Dry Bulk Terminal
DMR Department of Mineral Resources
DWAF Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
EMP Environmental management programme
EPS Earnings per share
Fe Iron
FIFR Fatal Injury Frequency Rate which is the number of fatal injuries expressed as a rate per million man-hours worked
FY Financial year
HDSA Historically disadvantaged South African
HEPS Headline earnings per share
Highwall Highwall mining is a method of coal mining in which A continuous mining machine is driven under remote control into the seam exposed by previous open-cut operations. A continuous haulage system carries the coal from the miner to an open air installation for stockpiling and transport
In situ In place, that is, within unbroken rock
LOM Life of mine
LTIFR Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate which is the number of lost time injuries expressed as a rate per million man-hours worked Mining Charter Broad-based Socio-economic Empowerment Charter
Mt Million tonnes
NAV Net asset value
RIFR Reportable Injury Frequency Rate which is the number of reportable injuries expressed as a rate per million man hours worked
ROM Run of mine
SAMREC The South African Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves, including the guidelines contained therein
Strike The strike of a stratum or planar feature is a line representing the intersection of that feature with the horizontal
TiO2 Titanium dioxide
tpa Tonnes per annum
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