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This week: Platinum market to end 2011 in modest oversupply Mining companies urged to be ready for beneficiation framework Platinum demand forecast to grow by 5.8% each year to 2020

Platinum market to end 2011 in modest oversupply

The platinum market would move to a small surplus this year, despite global demand rising to a four-year high of 8.08-million ounces, researcher Johnson Matthey said on Tuesday. The market analyst said in its ‘Platinum 2011 interim review’...

Resources Watch

This week: platinum analyst Johnson Matthey says that platinum may peak at $1 900/oz in next 6 months; International Energy Agency says it will be the end of coal power in Western Europe if carbon capture fails; and strategic mine planning...

PLATINUM BULLS

Platinum-group metals authority Johnson Matthey last week presented a bullish outlook for both platinum and palladium and spoke of deficits being on the way for both metals. Johnson Matthey precious metals marketing director Mark Bedford...

Real Economy Report

We take a look at the Navy's new technology ships; we visit a South African facility manufacturing solar flat plate collectors for solar water heaters; and consultants remain bullish on platinum and palladium.

Daily podcast – November 18, 2009

Johnson Matthey presents a bullish outlook for platinum and palladium; and gold production rose nearly 5% in the third quarter of the year.

Johnson Matthey bullish on platinum, palladium, sees deficits

Platinum researcher Johnson Matthey on Tuesday presented a bullish outlook for both platinum and palladium and spoke of deficits being on the way in both metals. Johnson Matthey precious metals marketing director Mark Bedford told Mining Weekly...

ETFs may hit $1-trillion level by 2010 – Absa Capital

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are among the fastest-growing investment instruments worldwide, says Absa Capital’s head of ETFs and index products, Vladimir Nedeljkovic. When ETFs were first started in the US in 1992, they were limited to...

ETFs may hit $1-trillion level by 2010 – Absa Capital

The ETFs market was relatively quiet until 1999, when it grew in prominence globally. Currently, ETFs worth $700-billion are listed worldwide. Some researchers have estimated that the ETFs market could reach the $1-trillion mark by the end of 2009...

Platinum market failing to focus on the positive - Johnson Matthey

The platinum market is failing to focus on the positive, says Johnson Matthey principal market analyst Alison Cowley. “We are in a situation at the moment in which people are focusing on all the negatives,” Cowley tells Mining Weekly in an...

Real Economy Report

This is the Real Economy Report. Our top stories this week: there seems to be no fundamental reason for platinum's collapse, the South African business community begins to show that it is taking the threat of climate change and carbon-intensity...

Daily podcast – November 19, 2008

In today's podcast: one of the main causes of the collapse of the platinum price is "very significant" disinvestment in exchange traded funds; and Wescoal announces that all conditions precedent with regard to its acquisition of prospecting rights...