June 21, 2012 Traders with Bernanke blues sell off metals, gold drops $50 The slide in the spot price of gold triggered by disappointment over the Fed's actions – or lack thereof – yesterday accelerated in Thursday trade with the precious metal giving up $50…
June 20, 2012 Barclays remains positive about PGMs, favours palladium Barclays Capital analysts say the pullback in platinum group metals since winter offers “attractive buying opportunities: "We expect palladium prices to average $700/oz in 2012 and platinum to average $1,622/oz."
June 17, 2012 End of the supercycle is also spelling the end of radical resource nationalism "Natural resources companies with a pipeline of, say, five projects in five different countries are now likely to build just two or three of those. Thus, executives have the power…
June 15, 2012 Chrome ore China tariff threat to South Africa’s platinum producers A vital revenue stream for platinum miners — chrome ore — may be choked off if ferrochrome producers are successful in lobbying for a protectionist export tariff of $100/ton in…
June 12, 2012 334,000 SA platinum ounces at risk – Standard Bank The recent turmoil in Europe and generally poor platinum price performance over the last few months has left South African platinum producers struggling and, marginal assets under threat.
June 11, 2012 Aquarius halts mining after platinum falls Aquarius Platinum, the world’s fourth-largest platinum producer by volume, has responded to a fall in prices for the precious metal by mothballing a mine jointly owned with Anglo Platinum, arguing…
June 10, 2012 Byron King: companies must pay dividends to make top-10 gold list The world still needs gold and other natural resources, but we may need a new investment model to sustain them, says Byron King, writer and editor for Agora Financial's Outstanding…
June 9, 2012 Chop-fest What a whippy week it was. Volatility spiked and then subsided into the end of the week which meant it was a great day-trading environment but then that petered off…
May 28, 2012 An ‘abundance’ of targets for asteroid miners "Space is big. Really Big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely, mind-bogglingly big," as the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy once noted. About the only thing nearly as big,…
May 27, 2012 Big miners playing game of chicken as marginal producers sink below break-even Smaller miners are waiting for production cutbacks by the market leaders to prop up prices the way Saudi-Arabia comes to the rescue of oil producing nations whenever the crude price…
GRAPHIC-Gold and silver soar in year-end rally Investors have not treated the festive break as an occasion to take profits. December 22, 2025 | 12:08 pm
