Palladium tops $1,800 for first time as shortage persists

AMCU, one of the largest trade unions in South Africa's mining sector, has thousands of members at gold and platinum mines.

After almost three years of rating the mining giant’s stock as overweight, JPMorgan downgraded it to neutral on Wednesday.

Anglo American’s defense advisers are said to plan attacks on the quality of Vedanta’s portfolio compared to Anglo’s assets.

The company, South Africa's largest gold producer, has run up losses of about 1.6 billion rand ($114 million) and about 110,000 ounces of missed gold output because of the labour action.

Opponents to mining projects in South Africa are often harassed, threatened and sometimes even killed, according to a report by a group of human rights advocates including Human Rights Watch.

The device is capable of detecting 0.1 percent hydrogen in the air in less than a second.

After months of being ignored in favor of market darling palladium, platinum is finally getting some attention from investors.

But the iron ore price surge won't last says new survey of commodity analysts.

Platinum has a brief but clear history as a leading indicator for Gold.