Can you use AI to find new markets for platinum group metals (PGMs)? “The simple answer is yes,” was the reply of Valterra Platinum CEO Craig Miller to Mining Weekly during the latest media roundtable of this PGMs mining and marketing company.

The Perth Mint, Western Australia’s historic refinery and mint, has earned a Guinness World Records recognition for the world’s largest gold bar, produced using a casting system designed and built by the Italian group Ikoi, whose name was engraved directly onto the bar in recognition of its technological contribution.

Platinum shares have returned to buy territory after months of falling metals prices, sending valuations lower. The basket price for platinum, palladium and rhodium, the main PGMs, is >30% lower than its January peak.

Hostilities in the Middle East are largely to blame for what is being described as a hiatus in the metals price run. The conflict has increased the likelihood of rate hikes, which ...