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South Africa quadrupled its solar PV imports from China in the first half of 2023.
A new report shows that 3.4GW of solar panels were imported – which, at peak production, is equivalent to the generation capacity of Duvha or Matla power stations.
South Africa saw the second-largest percentage increase in imports, after Europe.

China's woes are weighing on critical metals, said Matt Watson, founder of Precious Metals Commodity Management.

“In real-world terms, this means that we can have a more durable fuel cell that will provide high fuel economy over a longer lifetime,” said Jacob Spendelow, a scientist with the Los Alamos National Laboratory team that described its results in the journal Advanced Materials. “This work demonstrates that we can get rid of conventional carbon-based catalyst supports, eliminating the degradation ...

• DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius said his company was “keen” to become involved in PGM tailings owned by its majority shareholder Sibanye-Stillwater, but a tie-up was complicated to transact.
• “The layout is complex and there is a complex legal structure. It’s not easy to just wander in,” said Pretorius responding to questions at the firm’s annual results presentation on August 23. “But it’s ...

"Gold is also one-way locals can hedge against CNY depreciation," say analysts at Citi Research of the Chinese currency. The Yuan has weakened by more than 5% against the US Dollar so far this year, including a 1.6% drop in August which saw the People's Bank of China on Friday cut the amount of foreign currency that financial institutions are required to hold in reserve.

More than half a century has passed since John F. Kennedy delivered his iconic 'We choose to go to the moon' speech at Rice University. What followed was a titanic space race which captivated the world and saw the US and Soviet Union battle it out to become the first country to put man on another world.

Researchers from Korea and USA develop a novel iridium catalyst with enhanced oxygen evolution reaction activity, facilitating a cost-effective proton exchange membrane water electrolysis for hydrogen production.

Previously, precious metals like iridium and platinum were lost during the recycling of spark plugs. However, PGM Recovery Systems (now noble6) has patented a high-speed robotic process that can recover these critical elements. This means that there is now an opportunity to be remunerated for collecting spark plugs in bulk. Edmund Schwenk, CEO of noble6, is addressing this long-standing dilemma of ...

Gold prices edged higher on Monday, helped by a retreat in the dollar and bond yields, while investors awaited a slew of U.S. economic data this week for more clues on interest rate outlook.

Chiba University researchers show the hydrogen evolution reaction activity of a GoldNickel/Gold electrocatalyst increases due to surface defects formed via Nickel dealloying. Gold (Au)-based electrocatalysts used for hydrogen production via water electrolysis exhibit high chemical stability but low hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity. Alloying them with nickel (Ni) can improve their HER ...

BASF SE has hired Morgan Stanley to help it explore options for its business making catalysts for combustion engines, including a possible sale, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Recently, a team of researchers achieved a significant improvement in production efficiency of H2, a green energy source, through the development of a platinum nanocatalyst. They accomplished this feat by depositing two different metals in a stepwise manner.

The research team developed a novel nano reactor to finely control the location of metals deposited onto a 2D flat nanocrystal ...

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Over one thousand new hydrogen cars were sold in the US.

Figure 4. Mass activities towards the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) derived from RDE measurements (10 mV s−1, 1600 rpm, 60 °C, air sat. 0.5 M H2SO4) for the following OER co-catalysts: unsupported Ir-black (black), and IrO2 (dark blue), carbon-supported metallic iridium 30 wt.% Ir/C (grey), carbon-supported crystalline iridium oxide 30 wt.% IrO2/C (light blue), carbon-supported amorphous iridium ...

Earnings for the period decreased primarily due to lower revenue, arising from an 18% lower achieved dollar metal price, partially offset by a 16% weaker rand.
“The impact of the increased frequency/severity of load curtailment and cable theft resulted in a cumulative loss of 147,000 6E ounces of refined production for the period, which negatively impacted sales volumes.

It's the Fourth Consecutive Year-Over-Year increase.

Catalytic converter thefts broke records last year but are declining nationwide and in nearly every state as the prices of precious metals tumble. Thefts fell in 1H 2023, according to new data shared exclusively with USA TODAY. BeenVerified estimates ~26,742 catalytic converter thefts in the U.S. between January - June. That's down -43% from the same period in 2022.

China's passenger vehicle sales fell for a second month in July, as discounts and government support measures failed to persuade consumers wary of buying cars amid a sputtering economy and a prolonged slump in the housing market.

The US Treasury is due to announce a new definition for clean H2 this month, setting the regulations that producers must follow in order to claim tax credits

Platinum has been used in autocatalysts in internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles for almost fifty years, and automotive demand is the single largest demand segment for platinum, accounting for around 40 per cent of annual platinum demand.