However, to the miner's regret, after over 13-million shifts and almost two years without any fatal incidents, the South African gold operations suffered two fatalities during the third quarter. "Despite these fatalities we believe that our safety strategy remains appropriate and we will continue to work towards our goal of zero harm," Sibanye says. In terms of lost-time injury frequency rates, the miner reports an improvement in the serious injury frequency rate, the lost day injury frequency rate and the total injury frequency rates of 12%, 20% and 23%, respectively, being achieved in the third quarter, compared with the same period in 2019 for the South African gold operations. PGM OPERATIONS In the US, Sibanye's mined two-element PGMs production for the quarter was 147 835 oz. In South Africa, four-element (4E) PGMs production reached 427 715 oz for the third quarter – 18% lower than for the comparable period in 2019, primarily as a result of the progressive production build-up during the quarter.