Posts Tagged ‘platinum’

Perth-based Magma Metals (ASX, TSX: MMW) has reported that AMEC has completed an independent update of the Mineral Resource Estimates for the Thunder Bay North Pt-Pd-Cu-Ni project in Ontario. On a platinum equivalent (Pt-Eq) basis the Mineral Full story

A strike has begun at the South African mine which produces most of the country’s platinum. Full story

Gold remained strong today amid lack of movement in equity markets with US trading halted until Tuesday due to the Labor Day holiday. Full story

A strike has begun at the South African mine which produces most of the country’s platinum. South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers has said it called its members out of the Northam Platinum complex over pay. Full story

* Clean Energy Investments JV set to target African market * Cells may become "very large" demand segment for platinum The affiliate, created in July by AngloPlat, U.S. fuel cell specialist Altergy Systems and the South African Department for Science and Full story

Strike called at S Africa’s biggest platinum mine Uzbekistan News.Net A strike has begun at the South African mine which produces most of the country’s platinum. Full story

Prophecy Resource Corp. (PCY.V, PRPCF.PK) and Northern Platinum Ltd. (NTH.V) said Friday that the shareholders of Northern Platinum have approved the acquisition of Northern Platinum by Prophecy by way of a plan of arrangement. Full story

PERTH (miningweekly.com) – ASX-listed platinum developer Nkwe Platinum, which plans to also list on the JSE, expects diversified miner Xstrata to make an investment decision on the Garatau project, in South Africa, by the fourth quarter of this Full story

Increasingly aggressive stances by unions are creating havoc in South Africa. At Northam Platinum, the union's "demand" of 15%, is in reality a ferocious 27%. Full story

South Africa, the world's largest platinum producer, plans to release its reviewed Mining Charter, which stipulates rules on local ownership, within the next few weeks after earlier saying it would be completed by today. The review will be published Full story