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• 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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