With investment in platinum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) expected to rise this year, developments in Japan could offer longer-term growth opportunities, says the World Platinum Investment Council... 

Platinum jewellery remains a growing opportunity, according to marketing organisation the Platinum Guild International’s (PGI)’s ‘2024 Platinum Jewellery Business Review’. “Platinum means quality... 

Two acronyms were drummed into new mining entrants in the days of yore – GIK and WAR. GIK is short for ‘grade is king’ and at the opposite end of the scale, everyone was urged to declare war on... 

JSE-listed Wesizwe expects to report earnings and headline earnings of between 1.4c a and 13.32c a share for the six months ended June 30. This compares with a loss a share of 59.63c reported in... 

South African platinum jewellery design and manufacturing competition PlatAfrica is celebrating a quarter-century. This year’s theme, ‘Legacy and Beyond’, is aligned to PlatAfrica’s twenty-fifth... 

Aim- and AltX-listed Jubilee Metals has appointed Dr Reuel Khoza to its board and announced the resignation of CFO Neal Reynolds. Reynolds will leave the company to pursue new opportunities after... 

South Africa’s national green hydrogen programme has attracted projects worth R800-billion-plus, Public Works and Infrastructure Deputy Minister Sihle Zikalala said on Wednesday, when he called on... 

The presentation of DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius at the thirty-sixth annual Gold Forum Americas 2024 in Colorado Springs highlighted the company’s world-leading gold-from-tailings advances that... 

Platinum group metal (PGM) catalysis can play an essential decarbonising role beyond hydrogen generation, where its use in proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology for water electrolysis and fuel... 

Western Australian Premier Roger Cook has awarded strategic project status to the Gonneville project, which has the potential to produce a rare mix of critical and strategic minerals, such as... 

The latest independent definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the Waterberg platinum group metals (PGM) project in Limpopo is even more emphatic on the economic viability and wealth creation... 

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses a platinum deficit of more than a million ounces because of significant demand; he tells us why development finance institutions are seen as key... 

South Africa's mining production decreased by 1.4% year-on-year in July, Statistics South Africa reports. The largest negative contributors were iron-ore (-19% and contributing -2.8 percentage... 

Multinational mining and metals processing group Sibanye-Stillwater has appointed Terence Mncedisi Nombembe as independent nonexecutive director, with effect from September 11. Nombembe, a South... 

Canadian mining company Ivanhoe Mines, which is advancing base metal and platinum group metal projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa, has entered into a memorandum of... 

Anglo American South Africa, a subsidiary of diversified miner Anglo American, has sold 13.94-million shares of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) at a price of R515 a share, raising gross proceeds... 

Anglo American offered to sell about 13-million shares in Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) in a move aimed at increasing the South African firm’s free float ahead of a full exit. The shares... 

Robust growth is expected to drive total platinum demand to 8 118 000 oz, leading to a substantial market deficit of 1 028 000 oz in 2024, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) says in its... 

Development finance institutions (DFIs) are more than just financial supporters of the hydrogen economy, they are important architects of its future, Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)... 

JSE-listed Wesizwe Platinum says in an operational update that it has awarded a contract to an experienced contractor to start implement a rectification plan of the concentrator plant at its... 

Government agency Export Development Canada (EDC) may provide a $500-million loan for the Crawford nickel sulphide project in Timmins, Ontario. This is according to project owner Canada Nickel,... 

The global market is going through a very challenging time right now, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) executive chairperson Dr Patrice Motsepe noted on Friday, when the Johannesburg Stock... 

Government body South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator (SADPMR) will host a prestigious event on the sidelines of the Jewellex Africa 2024 conference, in Sandton, on September 8, to... 

Multinational mining and metals processing group Sibanye-Stillwater reports that it has improved its broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) rating to Level 4, from Level 6 in 2023 and Level... 

South Africa's Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe told attendees at this year's Africa Down Under conference, in Perth, Australia, on September 4, that the country's Department... 

Northam Platinum, which benefits from a full mine-to-market value chain in chrome, sold around 1.3-million tons of chrome for the year, which contributed 12.5%, or R3.8-billion, to the revenue of... 

This week: Mechanical cutting for mining set to move needle for Master Drilling and, Headwind-hit Implats delivers guided production, controls costs 

The most consequential action that price-hit platinum group metals (PGM) producers can take as an industry is the stimulation of demand. “But the issue is, are we doing enough to advance the... 

As part of Anglo American’s proposed demerger of Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) in 2025, certain Anglo American subsidiaries in South Africa have undertaken an internal reorganisation. The...