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Edward Sterck - Director of Research @ the World Platinum Investment Council

Watson referenced a chart showing platinum supply decreasing to 2030, as operational expenditures rise and miners close unproductive shafts. “We’re heading into a zone where we’re going to be in a structural deficit going forward,” he said.
Sterck agreed, stating that “it's just fundamentally the combination of mine and recycling supply continuing to run short of demand.” The WPIC projects a ...

Hydrogen Demand through 2030 - BloombergNEF

We see higher not lower costs of hydrogen and slower not faster take up of production and demand than expected.

Mitsubishi Materials to join effort to prevent resources from being shipped abroad

Green Rush: Mining the Energy Revolution

"It takes real labor and real capital, and it takes energy to get those physical products from the ground," said Melek, and all those costs have been going up. "We are potentially in a world of escalating prices for the long run."

Metal–carbon composites are extensively utilized as electrochemical catalysts but face critical challenges in mass production and stability. We report a scalable manufacturing process for ruthenium surface-embedded fabric electrocatalysts (Ru-SFECs) via conventional fiber/fabric manufacturing.

Northam Platinum

“We need to see a real structural change in the supply of palladium to reassert pricing power into the market,” he said in an interview. “That’s obviously going to bring some pain but we think it’s necessary.”

Although silver prices rose to an 11-year high last week, the arbitrage window — or the spread between Chinese and world prices — has widened even further. That creates the incentive to send more metal to China, potentially squeezing supply for other countries.

Anglo American

Anglo American rejected on Wednesday a third takeover bid by BHP that valued the company at $49.2 billion, but it has agreed to extend the deadline for the world’s largest miner to make a formal offer. BHP now has until May 29 at 5pm GMT time to table a binding bid for its smaller rival, which is simultaneously working on a radical business overhaul that will see it divest its less profitable ...

The price of silver opened at $31.18 per ounce, as of 9 a.m. ET. That’s up 2.96% from the previous day’s silver price per ounce and up 30.33% since the beginning of the year. The lowest trading price within the last day: $29.72 per ounce. The highest silver spot price in the last 24 hours: $32.51 per ounce.

Umicore announces the appointment of Bart Sap as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 16th.

Umicore announces the appointment of Bart Sap as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 16th.