Northam Platinum’s ‘can of worms’ could be a master-stroke
NORTHAM Platinum is opening a new can of worms at the Eland mine near Brits that has the potential to revolutionise drilling.
Partnering with Master...
Jubilee Metals confident it can continue new-found winning streak
JUBILEE Metals was confident it would maintain profit-making after producing bottom line interim success ended December 31, said BusinessLive citing the company.
Jubilee would lift...
RBPlat secures R1bn for Maseve after rights issue subscribed three times...
ROYAL Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) confirmed it had raised R1bn from a rights issue after is heavily discounted offer was more than three times subscribed.
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AMCU may be heading for another bloodied nose as appeal on...
IT will be a miserable first day back in the office for Lonmin should the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) succeed tomorrow...
Eastplats to study recovering PGMs from Zandfontein chrome retreatment project
EASTERN Platinum (Eastplats) said it would investigate the possibility of retreating platinum group metals from the Barplats Zandfontein chrome tailings retreatment operation, commissioned in...
Over-done palladium price expected to weaken before year-end, say analysts
THE price of palladium is expected to weaken before the end of the year, said Bloomberg News citing the views of nine analysts it surveyed.
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Palladium hits record $1,600/oz after Russian bans scrap exports
PALLADIUM reached a record $1,600 per ounce on Tuesday after Russia announced it was planning to ban exports of precious metals scrap, said Reuters.
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Amplats’ Griffith hoping land handover helps change expropriation narrative
CHRIS Griffith, CEO of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) described the handover today (March 15) of some 270 hectares of land to the South African...
Zimbabwe to bring curtain down on indigenisation ownership rules for platinums
ZIMBABWE is to abandon regulations that require platinum firms to sell control of their assets to local investors, known as indigenisation, said Bloomberg News...
Platinum surplus to widen but it soon may join palladium on...
AUTOMAKERS attending the 121 Mining Conference in Cape Town during February were unanimous in their view that switching from palladium to platinum in the...