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…

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."