Platinum Group Metals Ltd

Nye, Mont. — Stillwater Mining is hitting full stride at North America’s only primary platinum-palladium producer, the company’s namesake mine.And with the size of its hedge position diminishing, the…

Junior Conquistador Mines (CQL-V) is spinning off a subsidiary to acquire and explore for platinum group metals (PGMs) in Colombia.To date, the only Conquistador property in Colombia to have yielded p…

Russia will not start exporting platinum group metals (PGMs) “before the end of the summer,” a state-owned foreign trade company has told Interfax News Agency. The country is the world’s largest palla…

Preliminary figures indicate Russian mining companies produced 8.8 million tonnes of gold in the first quarter of 1998, 1.1 tonnes more than in the corresponding period of 1997.The Russian economics m…

Management of Inco (N-T) faced harsh criticism from union leaders representing its Canadian workers at the company’s first annual general meeting since the unveiling of restructuring plans that involv…

In the biggest acquisition in company history, Franco-Nevada Mining (FN-T) purchased Johns Manville’s last remaining royalty interest in the Stillwater platinum-palladium mine in Montana.The Toronto-b…

Kenora, Ont. — With a follow-up drilling campaign now under way at its Separation Rapids rare-metal pegmatite deposit, Toronto-based Avalon Ventures (AVL-V) is becoming more confident that the projec…

The first hole drilled by ProAm Explorations (PMX-V) has failed to hit the motherlode at the Golden Boy project north of Winnipeg, Man.While the drilling did intersect extensive disseminated sulphides…

Toronto-based Platexco (PGMI-T) is encouraged by the resource estimate received for its Winnaarshoek property, a platinum group metals (PGM) prospect on the eastern limb of the Bushveld igneous comple…

Russian exports of platinum group metals (PGMs) are large and exceed domestic output. This is because PGMs from state reserves are also exported to provide finance for the state budget.The value of ex…

The Hartley platinum mine in Zimbabwe is expected to reach full production by the end of 1998, reports operator Broken Hill Proprietary.The Australian-based company made its first shipment of platinum…

A government commission in Russia has called for a halt to the privatization the Noril’sk Mining and Metallurgical Kombinat.The commission has recommended that the recent sale of the government’s rema…