Platinum Top Stories

Top 50 mining companies in 2022: coal, lithium win big, China investors lose out

Commodity prices are always volatile, but in 2022 metal and mining markets reached new levels of turbulence, as the pandemic played out in China and the Ukraine war upended global energy.

Frik Els | January 9, 2023 | 11:16 am

Recession risks to weigh on precious metals prices, but weaker dollar would help — report

Depending on the direction for the dollar resulting from the…

Staff Writer | January 3, 2023 | 10:56 am

Supreme dollar rules the roost in gold market

The US currency's climb to 20-year peaks this year eroded…

Reuters | December 30, 2022 | 9:36 pm

Battery metal binge outweighs cost hikes at PolyMet copper-nickel project in Minnesota

Developing the first phase of the NorthMet open-pit operation about…

Staff Writer | December 30, 2022 | 10:26 am

Platinum price on pace for 20% quarterly gain, biggest since 2008

According to Reuters data, platinum is by far the best-performing…

Staff Writer | December 30, 2022 | 9:37 am

Palladium-infused ‘nano-chocolates’ a cheaper mechanism to store hydrogen

German researchers have developed an alternative mechanism to store hydrogen in palladium nanoparticles.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | January 4, 2022 | 6:06 am

Top 20 mining stories of 2021

Another record-setting year for the metals and mining industry and for MINING.COM.

MINING.com Editor | December 31, 2021 | 12:21 pm

Generation Mining clinches C$240m stream with Wheaton for Marathon construction

A March 2021 feasibility study outlined a 13-year open pit mine at Marathon.

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | December 22, 2021 | 10:47 am

Palladium price poised for rebound after being 2021’s worst metal

There are better days coming soon for palladium as Chinese purchases pick up and supply chain problems eventually ease.

Bloomberg News | December 22, 2021 | 8:38 am

Amplats to sell Bokoni mine to Africa’s Rainbow Minerals

Amplats holds a 49% stake in the platinum mine which has been on care and maintenance since 2017.

Bloomberg News | December 20, 2021 | 7:54 am

Nornickel announces new methodology for calculating its carbon footprint

Nornickel’s new methodology for calculating its carbon footprint is based on the from-cradle-to-gate principle.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 19, 2021 | 7:04 am

Battle for South African platinum miner comes to a boil

South Africa’s Public Investment Corp., the continent’s largest money manager, is an interested observer.

Bloomberg News | December 10, 2021 | 8:00 am

Ivanhoe Mines secures $300m in stream financing for Platreef

Its subsidiary Ivanplats closed a $200 million gold and a $100 million palladium and platinum streaming facilities for Platreef.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 8, 2021 | 6:09 am

RANKED: World’s 10 biggest underground mines by tonnes of ore milled

The ore that contains sufficient valuable mineral to be treated by milling process is what ends up going into the processing plant compared to run of mine ore production.

MINING.com Editor | December 7, 2021 | 11:09 am

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