November 13, 2012

Global platinum market to move to 400,000oz deficit in 2012 – Johnson Matthey

According to Johnson Matthey, supplies from South Africa will fall to their lowest level since 2001 while demand remains roughly flat.

November 13, 2012

Lonmin warns future at stake with $817m cash call

The miner has urged its shareholders to back the cash call, warning that without the balance sheet boost it will be vulnerable in the face of fresh proposals from Xstrata.

November 10, 2012

SEC rules against resource firms over Dodd-Frank

Oil, gas and mining companies' request to have transparency rules put on hold under 2010 financial reform act has been rejected.

November 6, 2012

Aquarius Platinum gets lift from takeover talk

Aquarius also appointed a new CEO this week.

October 31, 2012

$16 trillion of platinum could be extracted from seawater

Space mining start-up Planetary Resources President, Chris Lewicki, made more than one eyebrow rise Wednesday as he wrote in his blog that there are about $16 trillion worth of platinum…

October 28, 2012

French scientists transform H20 into gold

Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.

October 26, 2012

Cynthia Carroll yields to pressure and leaves Anglo

Where there is smoke… After several reports of Anglo American’s (LON:AAL) shareholders disappointment at both the company’s overall performance and her CEO, Cynthia Carroll, she has finally left the company.

October 23, 2012

Canada’s Ivanplats closes $307 million IPO and now trades shares on the TSX

Africa-focused miner Ivanplats (TSX:IVP), founded by billionaire Robert Friedland, successfully closed Tuesday its $307-million initial public offering (IPO) on the Toronto stock exchange, issuing total equity of $504 million (Cdn$493).

October 21, 2012

Fresh calls for Carroll’s head. Anglo CEO could be out ‘within weeks’

"There have been signals from the company that there will be change at the top – and soon."

October 18, 2012

Platinum’s days as a catalyst may be numbered

New catalyst uses plentiful cobalt and graphene