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Mining News Pro - South African mining dealmaker Neal Froneman is considering retiring in two to three years time, but would first like to double the size of Sibanye-Stillwater.
Froneman built Johannesburg-based Sibanye into a company with a market value of more than R182-billion ($11.9-billion) by buying gold, platinum and palladium mines in Southern Africa and the US. Now the 61-year-old is looking for acquisitions in battery metals, before handing over to a successor.
“I would like to see the company’s size double to a $20-billion market capitalisation plus before I move on,” Froneman said in an interview from his farm in South Africa’s Limpopo province. “Two to three years sounds like a good innings and I think we can deliver quite a lot in terms of our strategy.”
Nicknamed Mr Fix-It for turning around some of South Africa’ aging gold mines, Froneman has identified opportunities in nickel, copper and lithium and may announce a deal this year. The company is also looking to acquire more gold assets, though high valuations are currently a deterrent, the CEO said.
“M&A is what we are good at,” Froneman said. “We have created value and we are going to continue to create value in the right way at the right time.”
Froneman re-jigged Sibanye’s management structure last year, appointing long-time ally Richard Stewart to a new position as chief operations officer. At 45, Stewart is the youngest member of Sibanye’s executive team, and the geologist helped forge the company’s platinum-group metals businesses.
“Richard and I work well, he is entrepreneurial, he has got a solid technical background but it’s a broader team that impacts our business,” Froneman said. “Richard is certainly one of the potential successors but there are others.”
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