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Expansion plans pointing to 75% increase in Sibanye-Stillwater’s chrome volumes

Chrome is a growing value contributor to the revenue base of Sibanye-Stillwater’s South Africa platinum group metals (PGM) portfolio, delivering margins, resilience and project sup...

First phase of Sibanye-Stillwater’s secondary mining thrust given thumbs up

A lower-risk secondary mining business, which focuses on extracting value from platinum group metals (PGM) surface waste that hosts chrome, is being built by the South Africa PGM O...

Platinum’s the gift that just keeps on giving as global value-chain prospects resurface

Platinum‑based equipment is critical for producing large, flawless crystals for electronics and optics applications, says the World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) in its 60 Sec...

Sibanye-Stillwater developing seven primary platinum metals mining projects

Seven relatively shallow primary adjoining mining projects that focus largely on upper group two (UG2) reef and mainly mechanised mining are at various stages of development within...

Attributes of platinum group metals explicated at Mintek PGM Day

Platinum group metals (PGMs) have several properties that make them critical everyday-life minerals, Mintek supervisor applied chemical analysis Nehemiah Mukwevho explicated during...

Tharisa reports 468% y/y increase in first-half net profit

Johannesburg- and London-listed metals and mining company Tharisa has reported robust operational and strategic progress for the six months ended March 31, underpinned by the resil...

New longer-term platinum metal applications needed, Sibanye-Stillwater headlines

To replace declining demand for the autocatalysis that curbs emissions from vehicle exhausts, new longer-term platinum group metal (PGM) applications are required, Sibanye-Stillwat...

Tharisa reports project development progress, steady third-quarter production

JSE- and LSE-listed mining, metals and innovation company Tharisa remains on track to meet its full-year production guidance, while development of its Tharisa underground project,...

Mintek spells out how it can add value to South Africa’s PGM mining industry

South Africa's national mineral research organisation Mintek on Friday, June 26 spelt out how it can add value to South Africa’s platinum group metals (PGMs) industry. At its corpo...

Sibanye-Stillwater declares its South African platinum assets ‘world’s best’

If you gave me an option to have any portfolio of platinum group metal (PGM) assets in the world, this is the portfolio I would take – without a doubt, Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Dr Ri...

Sibanye-Stillwater’s mass of metal ‘probably one of planet’s biggest’

This is an incredible endowment and we are executing a deliberate strategy to extract more value from every single square metre of our resource base, an ebullient Sibanye-Stillwate...

Platinum jewellery generates highest demand level since 2019

Despite metal price and import tariff headwinds, platinum jewellery delivered growth across all markets in 2025, generating the highest demand level since 2019. South Africa is the...

PGMs, manganese, chrome drive South Africa's April mining output up 8.2% y/y

South Africa's mining production increased by 8.2% year-on-year in April, with the largest positive contributions made by platinum group metals (PGMs), manganese ore and chromium o...

Platinum metals mine concludes wheeled renewables energy deal

An energy company has entered into an agreement to supply 288 GWh of renewable energy a year to a South African platinum group metals (PGM) mining operation based in Swartklip, Lim...

Temas' RCL Critical Minerals Patent Portfolio Expands into Chromium

Mintek spells out value of PGM preconcentration plus chrome recovery

Successful removal of coarse waste is beneficial in that it reduces power requirements in the milling circuit, lowers water requirements, and increases platinum group metal (PGM) f...

Northam reports solid full-year production, sales performance

JSE-listed Northam Platinum reports that each of its operations delivered a solid performance for the financial year ended June 30, while project development continues apace. Key p...

Valterra Platinum says input inventories are healthy despite Middle East conflict

South Africa's Valterra Platinum has managed to maintain healthy inventory levels of critical operational inputs, such as diesel and lubricants, despite uncertainty created by the...

Green hydrogen seen as having potential to trigger new green industrialisation

Green hydrogen, which is produced with the help of platinum group metals (PGMs), could become the catalyst for new green iron, green steel, green chemicals and beneficiation indust...

Mintek keen to do bottleneck-exposing surveys for platinum metals processors

South Africa’s national minerals research organisation Mintek has highlighted the value of conducting bottleneck-exposing comminution circuit surveys at platinum group metals (PGM)...

Hillside Aluminium, Sibanye-Stillwater, DRDGOLD make headlines

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses South32’s conditional agreement to sell Hillside Aluminium to Alcoa; Sibanye-Stillwater calling for new longer-term platinum group met...

July’s Shanghai Week set to firm up platinum’s already solid status

In a year where change is proving to be rapid and consequential, the major upcoming Shanghai Platinum Week is bound to connect key trends across the platinum group metals (PGMs) va...

Middle East conflict, regionalisation of markets contribute to shift in PGM sourcing, trade

The risk of a protracted US-Iran conflict, the accelerating regionalisation of PGM markets, alongside the launch of platinum and palladium futures on China’s Guangzhou Futures Exch...

Zimbabwe's Mimosa revives $130m platinum project after price rebound

Zimbabwe's Mimosa platinum mine, jointly owned by Impala Platinum and Sibanye-Stillwater, is reviving its $130-million North Hill life-extension project after a rebound in metal pr...