Double fame down south

Fifth Column

Peter Skeat: much happier to talk about his other achievements than the Kebble incident

Publishing Date: 12 Jun 2009 10:48am GMT
Issue/Supplement: 12/06/09
Author: Mining Journal

Peter Skeat is well known in South Africa for two reasons in particular. Firstly, in the mid-1980s he successfully pioneered the use of open cast mining techniques at gold projects in the Witwatersrand Basin and platinum projects in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), thereby changing the way the industry mined near surface resources.

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