- DBM
- De Bron-Merriespruit, Wits Gold’s most advanced project
- Grade
- the quantity of gold contained within a unit weight of gold-bearing material, generally expressed in ounces per short ton of ore (oz/t) or grams per metric tonne (g/t).
- GRI
- Global Reporting Initiative, a non-profit organisation that has established a global sustainability reporting framework. GRI encourages companies to measure and report their sustainability performance, which includes their economic, environmental, social and governance performance.
- HDSAs
- Historically disadvantaged South Africans: South African citizens previously discriminated against on the basis of race, gender or disability.
- King III
- King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa which became effective on 1 March 2010
- Life of mine
- the number of years that an operation is expected to mine and treat ore
- Mineral Resources
- the concentration or occurrence of an economically valuable material in or on the Earth’s crust
- Mineral Reserves
- the economically mineable part of a Measured and/or Indicated Mineral Resource
- NI 43-101
- a Canadian Mineral Resource classification scheme used in Canada
- Reef
- a conglomerate band that contains economic levels of gold
- South African Mining Charter
- the Broad-Based Social Economic-Empowerment Charter for the South African Mining industry, which among other things, aims to ensure that 26% of SA's mining assets are black economic empowerment (BEE) compliant by 2014
- Tonne
- a metric measurement, equal to 1 000 kilograms
Abbreviations
- ADR
- American Depositary Receipt
- BEE
- Black Economic Empowerment
- CIL
- carbon in leach
- DBM
- De Bron-Merriespruit
- DMR
- Department of Mineral Resources
- EIAs
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- EMPs
- Environmental Management Plans
- g
- grams
- g/t
- grams per tonne
- GRI
- Global Reporting Initiative
- JSE
- JSE Limited
- kg
- kilograms
- LOM
- Life of Mine
- Moz
- Million ounces
- MPRDA
- Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act of South Africa
- Mt
- Million tonnes or tons
- Mtpa
- Million tonnes/tons per annum
- oz
- ounces (troy)
- R or rand
- South African rand
- SAMREC
- South African Code for the Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves
- SHE
- safety, health and environmental policy
- t
- Metric tonnes
- TSX
- Toronto Stock Exchange
- VCR
- Ventersdorp Contact Reef

