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Many analysts expect gold prices to hit $3,000 an ounce next year, but the rally is not expected to materialize until the second half of 2025. At the same time, with prices consolidating around $2,650 an ounce, next year's target would represent roughly a 13% gain compared to this year's nearly 30% rally.

Sibanye-Stillwater said it entered into a $500 million agreement with mining royalty company Franco-Nevada for the long-term supply of gold and platinum from three of its mines in South Africa.

Silver could outperform gold again next year, spot price forecast to hit $40/oz in 2025 – Heraeus

PGMs are crucial for hydrogen-energy-enabled decarbonisation, especially when employed in proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology used in electrolysers and fuel cells, reports London-based global authority on platinum investment, the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC).

In his latest note, Carsten Fritsch, a precious metals analyst at Commerzbank, said he remains bullish on silver for 2025, as the metal looks to end the current year in lockstep with gold. The current gold/silver ratio is trading around 85 points, roughly where it started the year, even as prices have risen 30% in 2024.

New platinum-nickel core-shell catalyst shows stability for oxygen reduction reactions
"We can enhance the performance of platinum by tuning its surface structure, which helps it react more efficiently," says Di Zhang, a specially appointed assistant professor at Tohoku University's Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR).

The average grain size of a typical bulk metal is about 10 μm at the smallest. In this new technology, the average crystal grain size can be controlled in the nano scale. As a result, the developed pure platinum, with 99.9% or higher purity, has 10 times the hardness and 4 times the strength of typical platinum materials.

The Silver Institute and Metals Focus says global silver demand in 2024 will largely grow due to gains from green economy applications, especially the PV sector. It expects the global silver market to show a physical deficit of around 182 million ounces in 2024, marking the fourth consecutive year of shortfall.

A research team of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has successfully developed a high-efficiency water electrolysis catalyst that significantly reduces the amount of iridium used to one-twentieth of that in commercial catalysts. This innovation addresses a major hurdle in the global scale-up of water electrolysis facilities, where the high price of iridium catalysts has been a ...

~40%! That’s the kind of returns Silver has delivered this year. Silver’s demand has outstripped its supply for the past 4 consecutive years. Its industrial applications continue to rise across the industries of tomorrow. As such, the rise in prices is driven by more than just a need to diversify - but fundamental reasons that can support prices. It's therefore no surprise, that market experts ...