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The company, one of the country’s biggest platinum miners plans to invest about $201 million to build its future facilities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400;\">The funding is part of a 10-year, $1.8 billion investment budget recently approved by the board of directors. <\/span>The funding objective is to expand the mining company’s operations by upgrading its current sites to maintain its production levels.<\/p>\n<p>The project involves the construction of two solar photovoltaic plants. With a capacity of 105 MWp, the larger one will be installed in Ngezi to support mining operations and power concentrators. The second solar plant will have a capacity of 80 MWp and be located in Selous town, where it will power a smelter and concentrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impala Platinum is set to acquire two 185MW solar PV plants in Zimbabwe. 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