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PROVISION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REHABILITATION (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
Provision for decommissioning, restoration and rehabilitation costs [abstract] |
Provision for decommissioning restoration and rehabilitation costs [text block] |
| Amounts in R million | Note | 2020 | 2019
| Opening balance |  | 682.6 | 553.4
| Acquisition of FWGR |  | - | 247.4
| Unwinding of provision | 7 | 52.0 | 66.3
| Change in estimate of environmental rehabilitation recognised in profit or loss (a) | 5.1 | (21.9) | (60.0)
| Change in estimate of environmental rehabilitation recognised to decommissioning asset (b) | 9 | (113.6) | (97.0)
| Environmental rehabilitation payments (c) |  | (30.2) | (27.5)
| To reduce decommissioning liabilities |  | (22.1) | (16.6)
| To reduce restoration liabilities | 14 | (8.1) | (10.9)
| Closing balance |  | 568.9 | 682.6
| Environmental rehabilitation payments to reduce the liability |  | (30.2) | (27.5)
| Ongoing rehabilitation expenditure 1 | 23 | (24.3) | (18.3)
| Total cash spent on environmental rehabilitation |  | (54.5) | (45.8)
| 1 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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