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Platinum producer Anglo American Platinum mining head Frik Fourie is scheduled to present a keynote address on how to make the South African mining business globally attractive again at the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM’s) seventh International Platinum Conference – ‘Platinum – A Changing Industry'. A keynote address is also expected from TSX-listed mining company Ivanhoe Mines’ 64% platinum-focused subsidiary, Ivanplats South Africa VP and executive head of capital projects Gerick Mouton on the Platreef project ... Читать дальше...

Platinum mining and marketing company Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) programmes and initiatives to advance women in mining have received good participation, with the company reporting that women comprise 11% of its workforce. Implats, which has five main operations in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex and Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, is satisfied with this percentage, as it indicates transformation and room for growth.

With the platinum mining industry in South Africa experiencing tough times, technology has become a major driver in reducing costs and facilitating improved productivity, and global engineering group Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is assisting in this regard through its strides in mechanisation, says Sandvik Key Account Manager Niel McCoy.  The tough climate has resulted in two contradictory measures emerging – some players are favouring a slow down by emphasising care and maintenance while others... Читать дальше...

The platinum market is expected to recover from its fifth consecutive year of supply shortage, in 2016, by posting surplus output in 2017, whereas the palladium market will widen its deficit in 2017, cancelling out progress made during 2016 in reducing this shortfall. This is according to platinum authority Johnson Matthey’s Precious Metals Management’s (PMM’s) ‘Platinum-Group Metals (PGMs) Market Report May 2017’, which notes that the platinum market remained in deficit in 2016 owing to strong investment... Читать дальше...

Global market authority on physical platinum investment the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) believes that the market is overestimating the negative impact of powertrain electrification, the movement to electric vehicles (EVs), on platinum demand. This is according to the WPIC’s July Platinum Perspectives newsletter, in which the council says the market assumption is that EVs do not contain platinum, as some market participants confuse EVs and battery electric vehicles (BEVs). It ...

Independent mining group Sibanye has appointed three executives following its acquisition of the only platinum group metals (PGMs) miner in the US, Stillwater Mining, in May, when its organisational structure subsequently repositioned from a divisional commodity structure to a geographical regionalised structure. “With the significant increase in size and geographical spread of the company, this regionalised organisational structure will provide effective leadership, ensuring appropriate focus and... Читать дальше...

The completion of the definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the first phase of production at platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Ivanhoe Mines’ Platreef project, on the northern limb of South Africa’s Bushveld Igneous Complex, is another key milestone in Ivanhoe’s planned transformation of the discovery into one of the preeminent South African producers of PGMs, says executive chairperson Robert Friedland. He notes that Platreef is a massive, high-grade, long-life, Tier 1 deposit that will produce a suite of vital metals... Читать дальше...