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…
May 25, 2012 Prophecy Platinum adds to 80% 12-month gain after Yukon project analysis Prophecy Platinum added 2.5% on Friday on double usual trading volumes, after announcing results of a full spectrum analysis of PGMs on the first batch of samples from its PGM-Ni-Cu…
May 18, 2012 Planetary Resources doesn’t want more people onboard its asteroids-mining ship Less than a month after officially launching its asteroid-mining plans, Google’s billionaire co-founders and filmmaker James Cameron’s owned company Planetary Resources, has already decided not to accept any more job…
May 15, 2012 China’s stricter emission rules lift palladium demand China's autocatalyst palladium demand in 2011 rose 11 percent, outpacing single-digit growth in car sales as stricter emission regulations forced carmakers to use more platinum group metals, refiner Johnson Matthey…
May 14, 2012 Monday metal meltdown: Gold drops to 10-month low "What is more disconcerting is that while investors have over the past few weeks appeared cautious of running too short on gold, this fear looks to have evaporated."
May 6, 2012 South Africa mine casualty figures at record low Miningmx.com reports April has seen the lowest number of mining fatalities ever in South Africa, according to figures released by mines minister Susan Shabangu.
May 3, 2012 Platinum to rack up eighth year of surplus Meanwhile, palladium remained in a gross deficit last year, with this being likely to increase in 2012.
May 2, 2012 US metal and industrial metal mine salaries for 2011 There is no such thing as an average miner. There is no such thing as an average salary. Yet we can get some idea of how well mining people are…
May 1, 2012 Scientific rationality aside, metals prices are about to turn for the better-Ecclestone It may not be a first order recovery for mining project financing, but there are more than a few reasons to be cheerful in the mining space, Hallgarten's Christopher Ecclestone…
April 30, 2012 Zimplats sees quarterly profits jump 170 pct A 32% increase in revenue from higher average platinum prices saw Impala Platinum's Zimbabwe unit's profits climb 170% quarter on quarter despite some labour and power shortage problems.
Iamgold’s Lemelin thanks mentor for Africa option Bruno Lemelin recalls his first Iamgold boss urging him to join Essakane in Burkina Faso as regional politics began to unravel. December 26, 2025 | 05:00 am
