Large scale futures speculators and PGM investors in physically-backed exchange traded funds are taking wildly different views of the outlook for the metals.
None of the foreign-owned platinum miners operating in the world's number three producer of the precious metal is listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
PGM prices plunge after data show country's mines responsible for 70% of global production are humming and local currency revenues are hitting records.
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