Platinum Group Metals

Acid mine water, and also seawater and brackish water, are being eyed for hydrogen production by innovative South African company Hydrox Holdings, which has patented a water electrolysis method that is attracting world attention. The new membrane-free …

A national roadmap for platinum-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles needs to be developed to complement the electric vehicle roadmap drawn up six years ago, says uYilo Electric Mobility director Hiten Parmar. uYilo is an initiative of the Te…

North American Palladium (NAP), the owner of the Lac des Iles mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario, has vested a 51% interest in the Sunday Lake project, in which South African platinum major Impala Platinum (Implats) and Canadian project generator Transitio…

North American Palladium (NAP), the owner of the Lac des Iles (LDI) mine in Canada, has vested a 51% interest in the Sunday Lake project, leaving South African platinum major Impala Platinum (Implats) with a 24% shareholding, down from 75%.

NAP has an…

TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines has completed the second major strategic equity investment of C$612-million in the company by Citic Metal Africa Investments, a subsidiary of Chinese resource company Citic Metal. Announced by Ivanhoe co-chairpersons Robert Fri…

Clean hydrogen, which South Africa is ideally placed to produce because of its superior sunshine and platinum abundance, is earmarked to replace oil in a world anxious to mitigate climate change, the planet’s most pressing current problem. New liquid o…

Clean hydrogen, which South Africa is ideally placed to produce because of its superior sunshine, prime wind, available land and platinum abundance, is earmarked to one day replace oil in a world anxious to mitigate climate change, the planet’s most pr…

A higher realised rand platinum group metals (PGMs) price, an improved operational performance and higher sales volumes have contributed to a significant increase in Impala Platinum’s (Implats’) gross profit for the financial year ended June 30. In a t…

Fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) technology, which relies on platinum catalysis, is gaining rapid ground across the world, Mining Weekly Online can today report. FCEV growth is taking place in tandem with the spread of the hydrogen economy in a world …

Platinum group metals (PGMs) miner Eastern Platinum’s (Eastplats’) retreatment project will now only reach full operation in the third quarter. The project had initially been expected to reach this target in July.