Platinum

Lonmin and the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union have wrapped up outstanding wage increase negotiations.

Lonmin will meet its forecast of selling 700,000 oz of platinum in the year to September but at an additional cost of $17.5m because some 20,000 oz of platinum will be toll-smelted by a competitor.

Aquarius Platinum had to contend with another quarter of wafer-thin or negative margins at its major operations, again causing a slide in the company’s share price.

Platmin's proposed delisting was the precursor to a stronger, consolidated company when the market was more supportive, said Brian Gilbertson, chairman of Platmin shareholder, Pallinghurst Resources.

Lonmin is considering legal options to bring a 17-week strike at its operations in the platinum belt to an end, saying the stoppage has become "dysfunctional'.

Impala Platinum's 180,000 ounces output cut is evidence the SA platinum sector is responding to market conditions, but do the reductions go far enough?

Platinum improved $30/oz, but analysts said there was not enough evidence the strike had depleted above ground stocks to signal a shift in the metal's fortunes.

Production at Lonmin’s Karee shaft could still be disrupted for several weeks as the company starts to dismiss 9,000 workers involved in an unprotected strike.

PLATINUM Group Metals (PTM) hoped to make its Maseve platinum mine cash flow positive in the first half of this year and produce up...

Intimidation by people not employed by Anglo American Platinum was a major cause for the continuance of the strike at the platinum firm's operations, now into its eighth week.