
<p>LONDON, May 16 (Reuters)&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Improving demand and lower supply will help palladium and rhodium swing back into deficit this year and reduce platinum&#8217;s surplus, consultants Metals Focus said on Monday.</p>



<p>The three precious metals are used by automakers in engine exhaust systems, where they neutralise harmful emissions. Platinum is also used in other industries and for jewellery and investment.</p>



<p>Demand from auto makers, which are beginning to overcome a shortage of semiconductors that forced them to cut production, will lift demand for all three metals, Metals Focus said.</p>



<p>On the supply side, palladium and platinum production could be constrained by major producer Russia&#8217;s conflict with Ukraine, while output from another key producer, South Africa, will fall, it said.</p>



<p>Logistical issues and limited automotive scrap feedstock will also impede supply from recycling.</p>



<p>Metals Focus said the roughly 10 million ounce a year palladium market should swing back from its first surplus in 10 years in 2021 to a deficit of 521,000 ounces in 2022 and that prices would average $2,290 an ounce this year.</p>



<p>Palladium&nbsp;XPD=&nbsp;jumped to a record high of $3,440.76 an ounce earlier this year and now costs around $1,930 an ounce.</p>



<p>The surplus in the nearly eight million ounce a year platinum market&nbsp;XPT=&nbsp;is expected be 40% lower than in 2021 at 477,000 ounces this year, while prices will average $990 an ounce, Metals Focus said.</p>



<p>It predicted a deficit of 30,000 ounces in 2022 in the one-million-ounce rhodium market, included in the Metals Focus report for the first time.</p>



<p>Rhodium&#8217;s annual average price&nbsp;RHOD-LON&nbsp;will fall 17% from last year to $17,750 an ounce in 2022, the report said. Rhodium currently trades around $15,600.</p>



<p>(Reporting by Zandi Shabalala; editing by David Evans)</p>


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Palladium to swing back into deficit, platinum surplus to fall

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<p>Yesterday’s South Africa’s  GDP data for the second quarter revealed that The mining and quarrying industry decreased by 73.1 per cent as  the demand for mineral products fell as global markets entered into strict COVID-19 lock-downs;  contributing to decreased production in platinum , gold and other metals. However we are seeing a glimpse of recovery for South African miners as they are posting above average results and production increases. Peter Major, Mining Director at Mergence Corporate Solutions joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Peter Major: Here’s what government should do to help boost SA’s gold production

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<p>Following gruelling negotiations in the world’s largest platinum producing country that unearths nearly 70 per cent of world supply. South Africa’s new platinum pay deal was sealed today after last minute postponements. Joseph Mathunjwa leader of Labour Union AMCU says his organisation will continue to keep a beady eye on the Platinum producers. CNBC Africa’s Kopano Gumbi, spoke to AMCU President, Joseph Mathunjwa.</p>


AMCU finally inks deal but wants more


<p>HARARE (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has awarded a concession to explore for and mine platinum to a company linked to a Nigerian billionaire as the country speeds up investment in a mining sector it hopes will transform the country’s struggling economy.</p>



<p>The concession comes just over a year after President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government signed an agreement with Cyprus-based Karo Resources to develop a $4.2 billion integrated platinum mine.</p>



<p>Zimbabwe is seeking to quickly exploit its reserves of platinum, which is used in catalytic converters for limiting emissions at a time vehicle manufacturers are moving to electric cars powered by lithium batteries.</p>



<p>The information ministry said Bavura Holdings, in which Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters is a major shareholder, would on Thursday sign an agreement to mine platinum on Zimbabwe’s mineral-rich Greak Dyke. It did not give details.</p>



<p>Peters, who is based in Ghana, is the founder of Aiteo Group, which has interests in oil.</p>



<p>Mines Minister Winston Chitando said last month the government would name two new investors to develop separate platinum mining projects west of the capital.</p>



<p>Anglo Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings already mine platinum in Zimbabwe. Impala also owns a joint-venture mine with Sibanye-Stillwater.</p>



<p>A Russian consortium and Zimbabwean investors are developing a platinum project in Darwendale near Harare.</p>



<p>Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Mark Potter</p>


Nigerian billionaire awarded platinum concession in Zimbabwe

<p>BURGERSFORT, South Africa, May 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Technologies used to carve subways and clear landmines are being retooled to mechanise South Africa’s platinum mines, where an unforgiving geology has stymied such efforts at a huge cost.</p>
<p>The technologies may make new mines profitable and could provide a lifeline for some loss-making shafts in a sector battered by low prices and social unrest, but there are limits.</p>
<p>Innovations include a 60-cm-high bulldozer built by private Croatian landmine clearance company Dok-ing that can reach narrow reefs, and a machine engineered by Atlas Copco unit Epiroc to replace blasting.</p>
<p>The stakes are high in the world’s top producer of the metal: most of South Africa’s platinum shafts are losing money, while the handful of mechanised ones are profitable.</p>
<p>Used for emissions-capping autocatalysts, the price of platinum remains pinned below $1,000 an ounce, less than half the lofty peaks it scaled a decade ago. Little upside is seen with diesel car sales falling.</p>
<p>An unpublished report by South Africa’s Chamber of Mines says: “Under current price and cost forecasts, conventional (platinum) mining ceases to be economically viable in 2024.”</p>
<p>This risks tens of thousands of jobs on South Africa’s platinum belt, a flashpoint of social strife.</p>
<h3>LANDMINES TO PLATINUM MINES</h3>
<p>The South African platinum reef is generally too narrow and steep for machines to access, sparking a race to shrink machine size.</p>
<p>At Anglo American Platinum’s Twickenham R&amp;D mine, an operator with a videogame-type controller recently manoeuvred the Dok-ing bulldozer that sweeps away ore.</p>
<p>Dok-ing began by building robust dozers that cleared landmines &#8211; compact beasts with tank-like tracks.</p>
<p>Tom Sertic, managing director for Dok-ing Africa, said it caught the eye of Anglo engineers. In 2003, at Anglo’s request, Dok-ing built an 83-cm-high dozer and has since cut the size.</p>
<p>The dozers’ tank-like treads help to resolve a key mechanisation challenge: the inability of machines with traditional tyres to mine steep gradients.</p>
<p>“Most machines &#8230; cannot work above 14 degrees because their wheels simply cannot generate power at such steep gradients,” said Declan Vogt, a lecturer in mining automation at Britain’s University of Exeter.</p>
<p>The Dok-ing dozer’s design enables it to work on reefs at gradients of up to 22 degrees or more.</p>
<p>Amplats plans to use the equipment to boost the profitability of shafts at its Amandelbult and other mines &#8211; ironic, because it is a battery-run electric vehicle and Amplats has bet heavily on fuel cells in the EV revolution.</p>
<p>Lonmin Chief Executive Ben Magara told Reuters his company was using three of the dozers at its Saffy shaft.</p>
<p>But costs are a concern.</p>
<p>“The up-front capital is the challenge and given the constraints in the industry, that is not small,” Magara said.</p>
<p>Bringing the technology to loss-making shafts also depends on how long they are expected to produce.</p>
<p>“It is a complicated process to switch to mechanisation. You need to cut jobs, bring in new skilled workers, set up workshops, and make other adjustments,” said Johan Theron, spokesman for Impala Platinum.</p>
<p>Theron said Implats wanted to mechanise where it could but the time and investment would not be worthwhile in older shafts.</p>
<h3>NO BLASTING</h3>
<p>Another innovation is to dispense with blasting, allowing for continuous work as mines must be emptied for detonations, disrupting work.</p>
<p>At Twickenham, the Rapid Mine Development System (RMDS) designed by Epiroc churns the rock-face with a steel disk. Cutting technology has been deployed in coal mines for decades using mechanical picks, but this is the first used in a hard-rock platinum mine.</p>
<p>Walking through the tunnels, you see the difference.</p>
<p>The sides and the roof of the blasted area are jagged, presenting hazards including loose rocks. Where the cutter has been, everything is smoother, with just grooves &#8211; not unlike a subway, for which the technology was originally designed.</p>
<p>The RMDS also has a mechanical roof bolter &#8211; in conventional mines, a miner with a jackhammer-like device drills and inserts the bolts &#8211; and it carries the ore on a conveyer system.</p>
<h3>MECHANISE OR DIE</h3>
<p>“If you look at the bottom end of the cost curve, it is dominated by mechanised mines. Machines do the heavy lifting so productivity is significantly different,” Northam Platinum Chief Executive Paul Dunne told Reuters. Northam’s mechanised Booysendal mine is ramping up production.</p>
<p>Implats’ annual results show its conventional Rustenburg operations last made a profit in 2014 and have since lost around 14 billion rand ($1.12 billion). By contrast, mechanised Two Rivers is Implats’ lowest-cost operation.</p>
<p>Sibanye-Stillwater has acquired Amplats’ labour-intensive Rustenburg mines and its mechanised Bathopele mine. The latter generates over half its platinum profit in South Africa.</p>
<p>Amplats, now firmly focused on mechanisation, paid a dividend this year for the first time since 2011, underscoring the benefits of its pivot from conventional mining.</p>
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Could this be the solution for SA’s ailing platinum mines?

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<p>Chrome and platinum group metal miner, Tharisa released their First Quarter Production Report which was up 1.5 per cent quarter on quarter to a record 365,800 tonnes.</p>


Mining boss sees upside for commodities, profit for 2018

<p data-reactid="32">LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum miner Lonmin plans to cut over 1,000 jobs before Christmas, South Africa’s Solidarity union said on Monday, due to persistently low commodity prices and rising costs.</p>
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<p data-reactid="40">“Because of these cost pressures, Lonmin has decided to place a number of its marginal shafts under care and maintenance and that is the reason why the 1,139 workers will be affected,” Solidarity, which represents mainly skilled workers, said.</p>
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Platinum miner Lonmin to cut over 1,000 jobs in SA: union

<p>Zandi Shabalala | LONDON</p>
<p>Platinum producer Lonmin will move its head offices from Johannesburg to its Marikana operations in South Africa in a move that will save it &#8220;tens of millions&#8221; of rand, Chief Executive Ben Magara said on Monday.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p>
<p>&#8220;For me it&#8217;s really about getting closer to the operations and giving support to our management teams,&#8221; Magara said on a conference call following the release of its first-half results.</p>
<p><strong>Lonmin reports H1 operating loss, cuts spending target</strong></p>
<p>The South Africa-focused platinum producer on Monday reported a first-half operating loss of $181 million hit by higher costs and lower production.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p>
<p>It reported a headline loss of $39 million versus a loss of $4 million a year earlier. It had a loss per share of 64.4 cents versus 1.8 cents.</p>
<p>The London-listed miner also cut its spending plan for the year to a range of 1.4 billion to 1.5 billion rand ($105.1 million to $112.6 million) from 1.8 billion rand.</p>
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Lonmin to move Johannesburg office to Marikana operations

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<p>Troubled platinum miner Lonmin said on Monday its chief operating officer (COO) has resigned for personal reasons.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p>
<p>After more than two years in the role of COO and director, Ben Moolman will step down on April 5, Lonmin said, without naming a successor.</p>
<p>The world&#8217;s third largest platinum producer, which was saved from collapse in 2015 with a $400 million deeply discounted rights issue, reported weaker than expected production, saying that larger shafts, known as generation 2 shafts, had disappointed. Lonmin also said initiatives to improve production were taking longer than planned.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Its not ideal that their main technical person is gone. It&#8217;s another signal that Lonmin has some real problems,&#8221; Peel Hunt analyst Peter Mallin-Jones said.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;They are facing challenges in managing its workforce, managing the local community and managing the age of its assets, all at a time when platinum group metal pricing is relatively low and therefore margins are very thin.&#8221;</p>
<p>Platinum prices rose just 1 percent in 2016, failing to join the rebound in the prices of some other metals and leaving Lonmin out of the wider recovery in share prices in the mining sector that began last year.</p>
<p>Lonmin has also been taken to task by the South African government which threatened to take away its licence at the end of last year if it did not build the houses it had promised for its employees.</p>
<p>However, some analysts said Moolman&#8217;s resignation was not a concern.</p>
<p>Momentum SP Reid Securities analyst Sibonginkosi Nkosi said Lonmin&#8217;s chief executive Ben Magara was a seasoned operations manager and could handle major issues.</p>
<p>Magara, a mining engineer, was head of Anglo American Platinum&#8217;s engineering and capital projects and is the former CEO of Anglo American&#8217;s South African coal unit.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p>
<p>&#8220;I was questioning why Lonmin needed a COO when Ben Magara is an operations guy. We know that he is Mr Fix-It. That function (of COO) can easily be slotted in under Magara,&#8221; Nkosi said.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Zandi Shabalala; Editing by Greg Mahlich)</p>


Lonmin’s chief operating officer to step down next month

<p>Sibanye Gold is hunting for another South African platinum asset with a focus on smelting and refining, but a deal is unlikely this year as its seeks to fund its acquisition of U.S. producer Stillwater, its CEO said on Monday.</p>
<p>&#8220;We still have a step to do with our platinum strategy,&#8221; Sibanye Chief Executive Neal Froneman told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of an African mining conference.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our South African asset base still needs to have a mine to market basis. We need to add downstream processing, so that&#8217;s smelting, refining. We want to know who our end-users are and develop the market,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>But he said the rights issue of up to $1.3 billion the company was planning for its $2.2 billion Stillwater acquisition needed to be completed first and so any new deal was unlikely in 2017.</p>
<p>&#8220;We think it&#8217;s prudent to target the $1.3 billion. It gives us a prudent balance sheet,&#8221; said Froneman, a blunt-talking executive with a reputation for deal making.</p>
<p>Sibanye, a Gold Fields&#8217; spinoff, has branched aggressively from gold into platinum, acquiring Anglo American Platinum&#8217;s labour-intensive Rustenburg operations as the Anglo unit pivots to mechanised mining.﻿</p>
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Sibanye looking for another South African asset

<p>South Africa will publish its revised Mining Charter by next month, a minister said on Monday, bringing closer legislation meant to redress racial economic inequality but which has concerned companies struggling with lower commodity prices.</p>
<p>A separate Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act will be finalised by June, proposing to give the state a 20 percent free stake in new energy projects and the ability to buy further shares.</p>
<p>The Mining Charter was introduced in 2002 to increase black ownership of the mining industry, which accounts for around 7 percent of South Africa&#8217;s economic output.</p>
<p>However, industry body the Chamber of Mines, has taken the government to court over ownership interpretations in the latest draft, which requires companies to keep black ownership at 26 percent even if black shareholders sell their stakes.</p>
<p>“We are not challenging the charter. We are fully supportive of the entire transformation journey, but we just need the rules to be absolutely clear to make sure we don’t end up making targets that are unobtainable but are pragmatic and realistic,” said Roger Baxter, chief executive of the Chamber of Mines.</p>
<p>In a separate court case, a local law firm is challenging the entire Mining Charter, arguing it is unconstitutional.</p>
<p>The new charter, which was revised in 2010 as part of a consultative approach to regulations, also requires companies to provide housing and other amenities in mining communities, many of which are mired in poverty and neglect.</p>
<p>“If government goes ahead and implements the charter in its current form it will be very unfortunate, because it would have a pretty dramatic effect on investment in mining in South Africa,” said Peter Leon, a partner at law firm Herbert Smith Freehills African practice.</p>
<p>South Africa is the world&#8217;s top platinum producer and has a significant gold industry but firms are struggling with depressed prices, rising costs and bouts of labour unrest.</p>
<p>“For investors, it goes without saying that regulatory certainty and the sanctity of private ownership under the constitution is paramount,” Anglo American Chief Executive Mark Cutifani told delegates at a mining summit in Cape Town.</p>
<p>Mining companies say they were not consulted in the latest draft but Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane denied this and sought to reassure investors.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have consulted extensively with stakeholders,&#8221; Zwane said in a speech at the opening of the summit.</p>
<p>&#8220;We call upon investors to come to South Africa and engage us frankly as we move towards transformation of our economy. We will continue to have an open door policy.&#8221;</p>
<p>With rising unemployment, the ruling African National Congress is under increasing pressure to address gaping inequality that persists 23 years after the end of apartheid.</p>
<p>Black South Africans make up 80 percent of the 54 million population, yet most of the economy in terms of ownership of land and companies remains in the hands of white people, who account for around 8 percent of the population.﻿</p>
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South Africa to publish contested Mining Charter by March: minister

<p>South Africa&#8217;s Sibanye Gold Ltd said it is considering tapping shareholders for up to $1.3 billion to partly fund a $2.2 billion takeover of Stillwater Mining Co, the only U.S. miner of platinum and palladium.</p>
<p>Sibanye had initially penciled in a minimum of $750 million in rights issue but said on Friday it reconsidered after some shareholders expressed concerns about the company&#8217;s debt levels.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sibanye believes that increasing the equity component would be prudent in the current strong rand environment, allowing the company to maintain a strong balance sheet,&#8221; it said in statement accompanying a half-year trading update.﻿</p>
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S.Africa's Sibanye mulls raising equity cash call to fund Stillwater deal

<p>South African gold and platinum producer Sibanye Gold said on Thursday it may have to cut up to 330 jobs in platinum operations it acquired from Anglo American Platinum and Aquarius Platinum.</p>
<p>Job cuts are a thorny issue in South Africa, where the unemployment rate is around 25 percent, income disparities are glaring and unions are known for their militancy. The platinum belt has been a flashpoint of labour unrest and violence.</p>
<p>&#8220;In 2016, Sibanye highlighted approximately 800 million rand ($60 million) in cost and operational synergies that need to be realised between the Kroondal and Rustenburg operations to ensure sustainability,&#8221; Sibanye said in a statement.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The reduction in replicated overhead costs and duplicate structures is a critical first step in realising these synergies,&#8221; the company said.</p>
<p>Union officials could not immediately be reached for comment.﻿</p>
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South Africa's Sibanye may lay off over 330 platinum workers

<p>South Africa&#8217;s Sibanye Gold will pay $2.2 billion for U.S.-based Stillwater Mining, Sibanye said on Friday, extending its push into platinum group metals.</p>
<p>Sibanye has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Stillwater Mining for $18.00 per share in cash, a 23 percent premium on the firm&#8217;s closing price on Thursday, the South African firm said in a statement.</p>
<p>Sibanye, a bullion miner that was spun off from Gold Fields in 2013, last year bought Aquarius Platinum and Anglo American Platinum&#8217;s mines in Rustenburg, but the Stillwater deal will be its first venture beyond South Africa.</p>
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<p>Stillwater, which operates in the state of Montana, is the only U.S. miner of platinum group metals (PGM) and the largest primary producer of PGMs outside South Africa and Russia.</p>
<p>&#8220;The transaction represents a transformational opportunity for Sibanye to acquire high-quality, low-cost, PGM assets at a favourable point in the cycle,” said Sibanye Chief Executive Neal Froneman.﻿</p>
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South Africa's Sibanye Gold to buy Stillwater Mining

<p>A South African union declared a wage dispute with the world&#8217;s top platinum producer and a unit of Anglo American on Tuesday after negotiations deadlocked, setting the stage for a potential strike.</p>
<p>The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said in a statement it had rejected the latest offer of a 6.75 percent hike by Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), less than half of the 14.5 percent it is seeking.</p>
<p>The union &#8211; whose members comprise about a fifth of the workforce at Amplats &#8211; had originally sought a 20 percent wage increase. Amplats shares extended their decline after the news of a deadlock in the wage talks.</p>
<p>A state mediator will now try to help the two parties reach an agreement, but if they fail to do so, the union&#8217;s members would then have legal grounds to embark on a strike.</p>
<p>The union&#8217;s members are concentrated in a handful of Amplats&#8217; operations including its heavily-mechanised Mogalakwena mine, the company&#8217;s most profitable asset.</p>
<p>Amplats said the company hoped to reach a deal.</p>
<p>&#8220;We continue to engage recognized unions and remain optimistic to reach a sustainable wage agreement,&#8221; said Amplats spokeswoman Mpumi Sithole.</p>
<p>South African platinum companies have said they cannot afford big wage increases as they grapple with depressed prices and rising costs including power and labour.</p>
<p>Amplats, which is in the process of selling its labour-intensive Rustenburg mines to Sibanye Resources, is also in wage talks with its majority union, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which lead a crippling five-month strike against the sector in 2014.</p>
<p>Amplats&#8217; share price fell over 3 percent, underperforming Johannesburg&#8217;s All-share index which was 0.67 percent lower.</p>
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<p>(Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by James Macharia)﻿</p>
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Deadlock in wage talks between unions and S.A's Amplats

<p>South Africa&#8217;s biggest platinum mine-workers&#8217; union and the industry have failed to reach a deal on workers&#8217; pay, the union said on Monday, raising the prospect of industrial action in the world&#8217;s biggest producer of the white metal.</p>
<p>The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which led a crippling five-month strike in 2014, has been in talks with Anglo American Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lonmin since July this year.﻿</p>
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