South Africa mooted as platinum industry’s ‘Silicon Valley’

South Africa’s unique opportunity in platinum-related development is beckoning. There is growing conviction that South Africa could and should become the first mover in creating a kind of ‘Platinum Valley’ that emulates the great Silicon...

Is there enough?

The US Department of Energy is at an advanced stage of study into the platinum industry, aimed at establishing whether the availability of platinum group metals (pgms) can be sustained in the long term, Mining Weekly can today exclusively report.

On-The-Air (30/05/2003)

Every Friday morning, AMLive’s radio host John Perlman speaks to Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly.