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PGM SUPPLY: PGM “challenges” do not incentivise production growth – Amplats CEO, Chris Griffith
- Date: 02-07-19
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Mining MX
ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) was not tempted to consider expanding production despite having restructured itself into profitability, a development heavily assisted by the improvement in the rand basket of platinum group metals (PGMs).
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Zimbabwe, Russia Sign $4 Billion Platinum Mine Deal
- Date: 10-04-19
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Bloomberg
Zimbabwe has signed an agreement with Russia to build a new platinum mine in the southern African country, finalizing a deal that’s stalled since 2014.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Nornickel to boost nickel, palladium output in 2019
- Date: 30-01-19
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Mining Weekly
Russia's Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel), the world's largest palladium producer, said on Wednesday its output of palladium and nickel from Russian raw material would increase in 2019.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: West Kytlim mining contract agreed for 2019 season
- Date: 28-01-19
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Research Channel
London-listed precious metals producer Eurasia Mining on Monday announced that it had hired Uralmetmash, formerly Techstroy, for the 2019 mining season at the West Kytlim platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium and gold mine, in Russia.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Mnangagwa’s Russia Visit Expected To Revive US$3 Billion Darwendale Platinum Project
- Date: 13-01-19
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Pindula News
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to visit Russia and three other Former Soviet Socialist Republics (FSSRs) this week. The visit to Russia is expected to unlock US$3 billion for the Darwendale platinum project.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Amplats lowers production guidance for next three years
- Date: 11-12-18
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Mining Weekly
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) on Tuesday said its production guidance would change from January 1, 2019, as Sibanye-Stillwater’s platinum group metals material would no longer be bought as concentrate, but toll treated, with the refined metal returned to Sibanye.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Monchetundra now fully authorised
- Date: 05-12-18
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Mining Weekly
The office of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has official approved the mine permit for the Monchetundra platinum group metals (PGMs) and base metals mine, Aim-listed Eurasia Mining reported on Wednesday.
View full storyPGM SUPPLY: Lonmin in talks to access Sibanye-Stillwater mining area to minimise capital costs
- Date: 04-12-18
- Category: PGM SUPPLY
- Source: Mining MX
LONMIN was in discussions with Sibanye-Stillwater to mine through a farm fence in order to minimise its project costs, said BusinessLive citing Ben Magara, CEO of the London-listed firm which is the subject of a takeover from Sibanye-Stillwater. “We are in advanced discussions with Sibanye and the Department of Mineral Resources,” Magara told the publication. “We are spending some risk capital to get that project going,” he said of plans to mine laterally from its K3 shaft into Sibanye’s Siphum
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