Surface Dumps

  FY14 FY13 FY12
Number of employees      
– Permanent employees 13 39 141
– Contractors 129 240 291
Total 142 279 432
Operational      
Volumes milled (000t) 2 897 3 326 2 986
Gold produced (kg) 903 1 279 1 509
Gold produced (oz) 29 032 41 121 48 515
Grade (g/t) 0.31 0.38 0.51
Financial      
Revenue (Rm) 386 579 637
Average gold price received (R/kg) 431 172 452 899 419 997
Production profit/(loss) (Rm) 62 152 252
Capital expenditure (Rm) 9 15 24
Cash operating cost (R/kg) 363 568 337 428 247 510
All-in sustaining cost (R/kg) 383 701 365 401 277 189
Safety      
No of fatalities 0 0 0
Lost-time injury frequency rate per million hours worked 0.83 0.71 2.58
Environmental      
Electricity consumption (GWh) 677 677  
Water consumption – primary activities (ML) 816 763  
greenhouse gas emissions (000t CO2e) 673 673  
Intensity data per tonne treated      
– energy 0.23 0.20  
– water 0.28 0.23  
– greenhouse gas emissions 0.23 0.23  
Number of reportable environmental incidents 0 0 0
Community      
Local economic development (Rm) 0 1

Production from the processing of surface rock dumps depends entirely on the availability of spare mill capacity, which in turn depends on the availability of underground ore delivered for milling. Improved mine ore feeds throughout the year resulted in steadily lower gold production from the generally lower grade dump material, and remained profitable.