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South African PGM miners have announced cuts of 500,000 toz production over the next five years.
Wilma Swarts, PGM research director for Metals Focus says the production cuts could end up being much higher — three times higher, in fact.

Technological Breakthroughs Raise Standards in Metal Refining

One of Australia’s top mining journalists Kristie Batten joins Stockhead in her new column placing a closer eye on the movers and shakers of the small cap resources scene.

The gold market has seen significant profit-taking after hitting all-time highs above $2,480 an ounce at the start of the week. While prices may continue to move lower, one bank is warning investors against betting against the precious metal.

Over the course of April and May, an inflow of more than half a million ounces of platinum poured into exchange traded funds (ETF) holdings in the UK, the biggest since South Africa’s ETF initial public offering (IPO) on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange nearly a quarter century ago.

Sibanye Stillwater would be forced to shutter its Montana palladium mine if prices fail to rebound soon, CEO Neal Froneman said Wednesday, according to Bloomberg. "The future of Stillwater remains in the balance," the CEO said when asked at a London conference about the outlook for the Montana mine. "If there's no correction in the price soon, as strategic as it is, we will have to put it on care ...

Heraeus has acquired McCol Metals, a Canadian recycler that specializes in recovering iridium from spent mixed metal oxide electrodes. McCol Metals will continue its recycling operations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The site will be operated by Heraeus Precious Metals, the precious metals division of the Heraeus Group.

Simulations at imec showed that using ruthenium vias for the first four layers of the interconnect stack reduces overall resistance by as much as 60%.

Four leaders in the North American catalytic converter recycling industry, PGM of Texas, Legend Smelting and Recycling, Daniel Ball Converter Recycling, and Maryland Core, have rebranded as Elemental North America. Announced June 19th, the new name signals the evolution of these companies from the collection and processing of used catalytic converters to a new stage of recovering and refining ...

The DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office is spending about $4 million to build a new facility for this research at Argonne National Laboratory. The new facility is expected to open in fall 2025.