UNIQUELY SOUTH AFRICAN: Richards Bay Minerals launches pilot project to test social stability for planned expansion

Richards Bay Minerals this week began construction of a plant that is a pilot project for a planned expansion that may cost more than $500-million (R8.6-billion). But there is a twist: the Rio Tinto unit, which has been battered in the past by criminality and unrest, is launching this experiment to test the waters of social stability.