For decades, production in South Africa's platinum mines has rested on the muscular shoulders of men risking life and limb to drill into the rock face with jackhammers.
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Anglo American Platinum (AMSJ.J) won't make a profit this year at its Rustenburg mines due to a 10-week strike, its chief executive said on Friday, although it is unlikely to declare force majeure on supplies to customers.
Seven weeks of labor unrest and strikes, which originally erupted at Lonmin's Rustenburg operations, have spread across the South African mining industry.
