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Bad day for platinum: Tsunami to trigger 8-fold jump in surplus, world no. 2 halts expansion

Frik Els | May 27, 2011 | 6:00 pm Base Metals Africa Platinum 

BusinessDay reports on Friday the global platinum surplus may jump eightfold to as much as five tons after Japan’s worst earthquake slashed car production, reducing the country’s demand for the metal used in cars’ emission systems to the lowest level...

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