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S.Africa power crisis to cut platinum output-Anglo

Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:59am EDT

JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Reuters) - South Africa's power crisis could cut production from Anglo American's platinum operations by 150,000 ounces, Anglo Chief Executive Officer Cynthia Carroll said on Wednesday.

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"We've said publicly that the first big outage had an impact of about 30,000 ounces of platinum. We are looking at another 120,000 for the rest of the year, so 150,000 (total)," she told Reuters after a breakfast briefing in Johannesburg.

"It is very, very significant," Carroll added. (Reporting by Paul Simao)

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