20 May 2013
World number three platinum producer Lonmin is formally recognising the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) as the majority union at its Marikana operation in South Africa.
The news came as the miner said employees engaged in an illegal strike at the facility had returned to work. The unprotected action was the result of union rivalry, the cause of much of the labour trouble across the platinum mining sector in 2012.