On Tuesday, Amplats said it had reviewed its entire business in response to a "number of structural changes" in the industry.

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Russia, in late 2012, still has a number of very serious structural problems.

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The property is the former home of the Fitzwilliam coal mining family but had fallen into a state of structural disrepair, partly because of the number of mining shafts in the area.

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The structural motivation behind the flow to emerging markets has prevailed for a number of years now.

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