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PROVISION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2018

Provision for decommissioning, restoration and rehabilitation costs [abstract]

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PROVISION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION

	Amounts in R million	Note	2018	2017
	Opening balance		531.7	522.9
	Unwinding of provision	7	45.6	45.3
	Change in estimate of environmental rehabilitation recognised in profit or loss	5.1	(2.9)	0.6
	Change in estimate of environmental rehabilitation recognised to decommissioning asset	9	3.9	(34.4)
	Environmental rehabilitation payments		(24.9)	(19.5)
	To reduce decommissioning liabilities		(21.5)	(11.6)
	To reduce restoration liabilities	13	(3.4)	(7.9)
	Transferred from non-current liabilities held for sale	23	-	16.8
	Closing balance		553.4	531.7
	Environmental rehabilitation payments to reduce the liability		(24.9)	(19.5)
	Ongoing rehabilitation expenditure *	21	(26.7)	(22.4)
	Total cash spent on environmental rehabilitation		(51.6)	(41.9)
	* The Group also performs ongoing environmental rehabilitation arising from its current activities concurrently with production. These costs do not represent a reduction of the above liability and are expensed as operating costs.

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