November 6, 2013 Leonard Melman: Put your trust in precious metals, not governments Continued fiscal stimulus, high debt levels and loss of confidence in governments will lead to the return of big inflation and a consequent big run-up in precious and other metals.
November 6, 2013 South African ex-union official shot dead in Marikana The man, ambushed outside his home in the mining town of Mooinooi, became the fourth person with ties to the NUM murdered in the platinum belt region in the past…
November 4, 2013 Sector-wide platinum strike looks likely Workers at Northam Platinum put down their tools. Others may follow.
October 31, 2013 South Africa: Existing gold and platinum mines will close, says Andy Jackson New deposits, which may be able to produce at a much lower cost with fewer workers and higher wages, could change the whole platinum industry.
October 30, 2013 Physicists reveal results of dark matter study from bottom of a gold mine The scientists have been working at the one-of-a-kind laboratory located at the bottom of what was once North America's deepest gold mine.
October 30, 2013 China needs PGM’s now In an effort to reduce vehicle emissions and drive sustainability advances in automobiles, the world is turning to technologies centered on platinum group metals.
October 30, 2013 Two precious metals with a compelling supply-demand dynamic Two precious metals that are developing increased demand from industrial use: platinum and palladium.
October 29, 2013 Platinum miners to strike in South Africa again Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. (Implats) and Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) operations to be affected.
October 29, 2013 Zimbabwe gov pursuing bond to finance mining "As long as we still have prohibitive policies, then the prospects of the bond will not be so good."
October 18, 2013 Chile’s Collahuasi boosts Anglo American results, logs copper record Anglo's Collahuasi copper mine more than doubled output to 63,600 tonnes, way above analysts’ expectations.
Column: Can Africa win as the West and China scramble for minerals? What is different this time compared to the colonial conquest of Africa two centuries ago is that African countries have far more choice. February 12, 2026 | 09:36 am
