Heartening progress overshadowed by heartbreaking loss of life

The loss of six lives is completely overshadowing the encouraging progress being made to build a stronger and more robust Impala Platinum (Implats). Implats CEO Terence Goodlace lamented in the company's latest quarterly report for the three months to March 31 that the deaths of four employees in an underground fire at Shaft 14 at Impala Rustenburg and deaths of two employees at the Mimosa platinum mine in Zimbabwe had left a pall of grief over the company.