Platinum underperforms gold due to lack of respectable safe-haven status
Platinum's poor performance relative to gold of late may be due to its lack of status as a safe-haven investment and a credible means of storing value.
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I'm not locating capital to India or China as I don't see things progressing there. We can't remain stuck, so we move on. Now our priority is to reduce debt, we sell non-core assets. But we continue to invest in mining and become self-dependent.
Feds quash 21-year old permit after coal mining restarted, overruling Alaska Natural Resources Dept
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20 arrested after shutting down coal mine in West Virginia
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The Awa, S11D, Colin Firth and flesh-eating bats: Welcome to global mining’s environment acid test
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