Stillwater Mining Company is engaged in the exploration, development, mining and production of platinum, palladium and associated metals from the Stillwater Complex in southern Montana, which the company believes isthe only significant primary source of platinum and palladium outside theRepublic of South Africa. The Stillwater Complex includes an extensivemineralized zone containing platinum group metals known as the J-M ReefThe Stillwater Complex has been prospected for gold, copper, nickel and chromium.