The five-month long strike in the platinum belt will continue while the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union and the platinum producers discuss the union's additional demands.
The union has demanded that, in addition to awards included in the "in-principle agreements" of earlier this month, each striking worker must receive a R3000 return-to-work payment, criminal charges must be withdrawn against its members arrested during the strike, and there must be a moratorium on retrenchments.
The platinum producers' spokesman, Charmane Russell, said the additional demands would cost R1-billion and were unaffordable.
Russell said the producers would continue to talk to the union.
The union said it was confident that, despite its additional demands, a settlement could be reached.
Union president Joseph Mathunjwa is expected to brief miners about the latest developments.
The in-principle agreement offers lower-category employees a R1000 increase on basic pay for two years, and a R950 increase for the next three years.
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