October 25, 2017

Rhodium price roars to six-year high

Precious metal is up 114% or $880 an ounce in 2017 as above-ground stocks are "bled dry".

October 20, 2017

Invest in platinum, palladium, or rhodium?

David Morgan uncovers supply and demand fundamentals on mining, cost of production, utility, and ratios in Proven and Probable interview.

October 9, 2017

Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea drive gold prices up

Gold prices finished higher last Friday and followed the upward trend on Monday, with December gold GCZ7, +0.67% rising to $1,283 an ounce.

October 4, 2017

CHARTS: Mining’s 2017 rally forecast to fizzle out

Consensus forecasts point to double digit declines for the platinum, zinc, copper and lead price by the end of the year, while coal is set to tank.

September 22, 2017

Johnson Matthey to invest 200m pounds in battery material technology

The specialty chemicals company said the overall market "could be (worth) more than $30 billion (in) sales when battery electric vehicle penetration increases to around 10 percent.

September 18, 2017

Palladium price consensus forecasts point to end of the rally

Speculative frenzy not entirely supported by fundamentals.

September 7, 2017

South Africa’s manufacturing, mining output disappoint as economy limps

Official figures released on Thursday signall a bad start for the second half of the year with business confidence at its lowest in more than three decades.

September 6, 2017

Platinum price pressured as market moves into oversupply

A rise in refined supply (despite a 9% dip in mine-level output) and a drop in automotive and industrial demand erases Q1's 305,000-ounce deficit.

August 18, 2017

Six precious metal explorers that may hit it big this summer

Summer is the season for drilling, and with the uptick in the precious metals market since 2016, companies are finally able to have the budgets to properly explore their prospects,…

August 15, 2017

Strong rouble, one-off expenses hit Russia’s Nornickel’s H1 earnings

Russia's Norilsk Nickel reported a 3 percent fall in first-half core earnings on Tuesday, missing analysts' forecasts, due to a stronger rouble and a jump in social expenses.