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Showing posts with label PLATINUM GROUP METALS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PLATINUM GROUP METALS. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2020

SHOOTING THE LIGHTS OUT!

Precious metals are flying as the recovery takes place from the Covid 19 pandemic.
Palladium and gold are now likely to stay static or decline slightly.
Platinum with its myriad of uses is likely  to climb faster now and its run is definitely not over. 
See the right hand column for the latest updates on mining news.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

BREAK THROUGH !

1.  Mining will be a great South African stabiliser ,post COVID-19 outbreak! This will help in the recovery of our monetary system and create work. Of course this will have to be managed well and assets not wasted on graddiose ideas or corrupt practises!

2.  With great innovators still in South Africa ,which we must appreciate ,great strides can be made to eventually employ thousands of workers.

3. Take for example which with our technicians has come up with the plan to produce hydrogen more cheaply below R100  /per kg which compares well with the price of petrol, by an electroliser that eliminates costly membranes.
This device was invented and built with the help of SHELL. It is a green deal and won the award for NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY  IN INNOVATION !
This will unlock the fuel cell industry and create a renewed demand for PLATINUM !

 1.SEE THE LATEST UPDATE OF MINING AND MINERAL NEWS IN THE RIGHT HAND SIDE COLUMN
2.SEE THE NEW LARGE CAPITAL STOCK LIST THAT WILL REPLACE THE SEASONAL  LISTS IN FUTURE. SEE THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN ON THE PAGES INDEX. aT THE MOMENT UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

3. SEE MEDIUM CAPS UPDATED

4 SEE MY SPECIALIST LIST UPDATE













Monday, September 2, 2019

PGM's prices on the Move !

 As soon as the "Discovery" ! , is made that Platinum group metals are more suitable in fighting pollution than lithium will ever be there is likely to be an explosive increase in PGM,s prices.
  How ever a basic higher price is likely to occur as soon as a ramp up in production provides the necessary minerals to the market ,which is likely to be in the form of controlled production as mines cut back sharply last time when there was a surplus.
  Platinums price has now increased by US$100 per ounce in the last quarter to +- $942 per ounce.
and is likely to sustain a basic price of over US$1300 over the next decade.
  Paladium is now around US$1500 and is very profitable at this level . It might not increase much in price going forward as platinum is likely to take over as it is more efficient in fuel cells and catylitic converters.
  The rarer metal Rhodium has soared to US5000 per ounce. We can not tell if this is due to use or speculation! It is used in only specific industry but is likely to stay at a higher price going forward.
 PGM,s are used in heavy industry and heavier transport situations. As ordinary autos are starting  to take up more of these metals there is likely to be a run on prices!

DO USE THE THE SIDE COLUMN  OR SUBJECTS BELOW TO GROUP ARTICLES ON THE ABOVE SUBJECTS AS WE HAVE WRITTEN EXTESIVELY ON THE SUBJECT IN THE PAST!

Monday, April 1, 2019

TRENDING COMPANIES AND MINERALS.

Ever since 2009 ,except for a couple of short periods ,I have been a PGM (Platinum Group metal) bull!
There is always a couple of them increasing in price. I have always maintained that Platinum is the more important than Palladium. The palladium price has for the last couple of years been higher than platinum,mainly because motor manufacturers lied about the loadings of platinum in catylitic converters . This damaged platinum use and speculators did the rest and chased prices down. Palladium is now in bubble territory,so is now easing against the platinum price.
THE GREAT FUTURE IN PLATINUM is now in FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY 
Remember fuel cells produce no pollutants in every type of engine from autos to stationary engines. Japan is going full steam ahead with this production ,whilst the rest of the world is concentrating on lithium solutions which  has many drawbacks as the electricity to load these batteries will still mostly be produced by coal fired power stations for at least the next half centuary.
THE LEADING WORLD MINING COMPANIES THAT ABLE TO SUPPLY THESE NEEDS ADEQUATELY HAVE MANY OF THEIR ASSETS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
                DO WATCH 
ANGLO (AGL)
SYBANYE (SGL)
AMPLATS (AMS)
IMPALA (IMP)
RBPLATS (RBP)
NORTHAM (NHM)
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A good idea is to also read Bvians Southern African mining and resources news on a monthly basis        AS WELL

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The latest  page updates are always at the top of the right hand column.

Friday, February 1, 2019

The New Hydrogen AGE, REVOLUTION !

HYDROGEN which can easily be extracted from water is likely to drive the  new clean air revolution.
This is the preferred fuel that works with Platinum catalityic fuel cells. Its half the price of pretroleum fuels and has the advantage of being 100 % free of pollution.
Of course there's talk of using boron etc .to cut out rare earth ,such as platinum altogether ,but these experiments are still unproven.
When platinum is used for catalysts the power produced is strong enough to drive the largest stationary engines or so little can be used for small engines.
Toyota and other car,bus and heavy duty manufacturers have all chosen platinum to drive their future plans.
Germany is also tooling up now. Their leading manufacturer Mercedes Benz is also getting in on the act.
South Africa is the leading country regarding supply of platinum in the world .Impala platinum mine is now gearing up to supply their own electricity.
There is genuine scope for down-line applications helping create work locally. Do read all the other posts that I have written on platinum group metals over the years. Click on labels below or in the side-bar.
SEE THE PAGE UPDATES EACH MONTH. THE LATEST UPDATE IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST IN THE SIDE-COLUMN

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

NEW YEAR PROSPECTS

1.During the previous year the general investment climate in Southern Africa never really lived up to  expectations.
Stocks of course had over shot the true recovery from the 2008 recession. Further, very bad political decisions such as the land grab debate to curry favor  with the  uneducated part of the electorate had bad repercussions for our country as overseas investors sold off our stocks . Moving to the more safe countries of the world.
See the side bar as some stocks held up  and mid-capital stocks did rather well when based on sound principles .
As our government is now looking for overseas funds to prop up their program of aims they have to get a lid on corruption and general government wastage. It unlikely that they will do the absolute take overs as Europe and America put pressure on them to behave in a civilised manner!
One danger is that they are turning to China for more of their monetary needs,how  ever China itself being under threat of  trade wars is cutting back on more reckless lending.
2. Platinum group metals are now coming into their own. There is always at least a couple , out performing. At the moment Rhodium and Palladium are trending. Do look at our Mining website where reasons are discussed from time to time. 
See the top of right hand side-bar,for the latest updates .



Wednesday, May 2, 2018

A Good Step in the right Direction Great

The new minister of mines has come out with a plan to put mining in the right direction after the previous ministers have have been blundering around for the last 23 years have achieved very little taking mining into the dark ages, worrying more about racial quotas and extracting tax from mining at a time when mineral prices were declining.
GWEDE  MANTASHE the new minister of mining has proposed  a longer time frame for mining called VISION 30 . As we all know it can take up to ten years to ramp up a mine to full production and a lot longer to show a reasonable profit. 
At the moment no major explorers have shown any interest in their field.Mr. Mantashe is instituting a process where all stake holders are been consulted before publishing a new mining charter.
All that the mine owners ask is that this document should be made tinker proof as following ministers might not be as knowledge-able as the present minister and then spoil the package . There are copious amounts amounts of platinum ,yes and even lithium and other rare earth minerals  and chrome waiting to be developed.
Something I don't really talk about is during the last three month a great deal of interest is been shown by the Eastern nations ,in the past this was the exclusive working area of the WEST.
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2. Students and researchers use labels in the side bar to gather together information on subjects of interest.

3.Remember to bookmark this post and then visit regularly also visit the most read posts.

4. The blog archive will also help for furher study at the bottom of the right hand column.

Friday, March 2, 2018

THE BIGGER PICTURE !

Hats off to the Japanese industrialists and government for recognizing the fact that Fuel Cells are far superior to batteries to keep the environment free from pollutants. All the big auto manufacturers and industrial engine manufacturers are on board.Also used in catalytic converters, the Platinum Group Metals are tops.
The rest of the world manufacturers are taking the line of least resistance and falling over each other to produce mostly lithium long life batteries.
Already countries are complaining about the use of electricity that simply will not be enough to reload these batteries and are already suggesting that they will have to recharge them at night, which  by the way usually will take all night  to recharge. 
This electricity will mostly be produced by coal fired power stations for almost the next century.
Talk of pollutants!
On the other hand Fuel Cells can get a recharge in about fifteen minutes at special points that will continue to be added to existing garages and larger sites for industrial use.
SEE THE LATEST UPDATES IN THE SIDE-BAR

Friday, September 1, 2017

NOW TRENDING Recovery of Platinum Group Metals and Chrome picking up !

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UPDATES : -              My specialist lists for September,see side bar  and summer and spring updates                                                        also 
                                                 See what to Google below post


Platinum Group Metals (PGM's) six months ago were $ 919 per basket ounce. Now they are $ 974 per basket.

     
                   OTHER  PRICES IN US DOLLARS PER OUNCE
TWO MONTHS AGO                            END AUGUST 2017

 $   880                              PLATINUM               $939         


ONE  YEAR AGO                                                NOW

$690                    PALLADIUM                            $920                       
$655                      RHODIUM                              $1100
COMPARING  PGM'S WITH GOLD LEADS ONE TO THE CONCLUSION GOLD'S USES ARE SO LIMITED AS TO ALMOST DECLARE IT A MONO USE METAL !
PGM'S ON THE OTHER HAND ARE SO MULTI FACETED THAT ITS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO STATE ALL THEIR USES.
DO READ LAST MONTHS POST ALSO CLICK ONTHE LABELS IN THE SIDE BAR CLOUD TO GROUP ARTICLES THAT INTEREST YOU.
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Friday, August 4, 2017

Revitalised Bright Future for PLATINUM GROUP METALS

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FUEL CELLS will obviously be the rage sooner than we thought would be the case in the past.

Important announcements in this regard are:-
 1. VOLVO has decided that from 2018 it will no longer produce internal combustion autos

2. The BRITISH government will no longer allow new internal combustion(pretroleum) autos on their roads from 2040 onwards.

3.Stationary fuel cell generators are being increasingly being used in the most polluted city environments worldwide.

4.THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF ALL IS THAT MERCEDES SCIENTISTS have reduce the amount of platinum in auto fuel cells to the same loading as is now used in catalytic converters making this move the item price wise of choice above lithium batteries for the future !

5. Lithuim batteries still need a great deal of development as they  are somewhat unsafe and have still have to be charged by electricity probably still coming from coal produced electricity! The range of absolute FUEL CELL CLEAN ELECTRICTY is so much greater when used in autos..

UPDATES. See side-bar at top on the left of the page.
1.top 40 spring and summer lists now in place.

2 CLICK ON:- Stock Trading Trends THEN CLICK ON : BVian's Abacus Information Alerts for NOW TRENDING PLATINUM!
MY SPECIALIST WATCHLIST HAS BEEN UPDATED FOR AUG 2017 SEE SIDE-BAR
4 SMALL CAPS HAVE BEEN UPDATED FOR AUGUST 2017 CLICK ON SIDE-BAR TO GO THE MINING AND RESOURCES UPDATE AUGUST IN SIDE-BAR

Thursday, December 1, 2016

The year that was !

This has been a year  in which there have been more financial  and political shocks worldwide than normal.Growing  populations have become more restive and even rebellious as the recession lingered on. At year end America is well on the way to recovery and the first sprigs of recovery are seen in Europe and Asia. As always Africa is lagging. 
How ever a pleasing change has been seen on the African Continent as populations strive for more accountability and less graft  top of government officials. This is playing itself out especially here in  South Africa as we strive to avoid  downgrades in our borrowing to junk status. As many other major countries have failed this test of morality we have for a second time avoided this fate.
It must be remembered that we produce 80% of the world platinum group metals and also a full range of base metals and minerals.
How ever at the present price of platinum, around $900 per ounce it is being produced at a loss. There is already a shortage of 20% in  ounces, per annum, built up and as fuel cells and other catalytic converters are needed for cleaner air become the vogue. In the last ten years the price has suddenly spurted by a couple of hundred USA dollars per ounce! this exciting event can happen again. Do remember it takes five years to ramp up and open mothballed areas in existing mines and a great deal longer in new developments!
I wish all our readers,Google and our advertisers all the best for 2017.




Tuesday, November 1, 2016

THE NEXT PHASE IN METALS AND MINERALS USE Part 2 MINING MODERISATION

  All systems are go to arrest the present decline in mining activity, and overcome the obstacles out there. The easy mining ore bodies are fast becoming the thing of the past.
 Public and private companies, with workers are beginning to work together to preserve jobs, income and tax revenue.
  Modernising and research into methods of refining especially in South Africa which has always been a world leader in this regard as during the last hundred years we were the world leaders in production of platinum group metals ,gold and diamonds. An added source of income is the production of equipment to further these activities now been developed.
  These activities will lead to sustainability of the mining environment over the next half century.
  Of great importance now is safety of workers at extreme depths in tunnels and difficult mining circumstances.
  Remote control of machines will keep workers out of harms way for the most part in dangerous areas. Narrower machines are already working and more innovative ones are being built.
Backfill of pulverised rock now has many advantages as it stabilises the ground in worked out areas avoids unsightly heaps of  ground and in generally more environmentally friendly.
The greatest advances are continually been made in refining of complicated metals such as precious metals as well as more basic metals in seperation by using enzymes instead of the old methods such as sieves to seperate the various elements from the waste rocks. This also results in greater recoveries and more profits.
IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO ALSO READ PART 1  PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER ALSO THE STRIPPING OF RESOURCE ASSETS mentioned in the posts in the side-bar to get a continuity picture of the whole subject in South Africa.

For the latest on Stocks go to... Abacus Top stock tips.... and bookmark the post.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

SELL IN MAY ?

and go away! Not really ,but do note that resources such as gold ,coal and platinum group metals have soared in the last couple of months   , coming off lows and driven by speculators.
There is really no sign that there is an increased demand at  this stage. The recovery continues, but at a snails pace.
Best to wait till August before entering any large buying moves.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

ADDITIONAL ASSET CLASSES

Most of us have   read at certain times that money is not worth the value of the paper its printed on!
Unfortunately this is turning out to be the norm , more often than we would like!
It was obvious that there was not enough gold in the world to cover all the paper currencies as in the past. Coming up with PAPER GOLD as it was called was not the answer, but the chosen method politicians decided on. It was thought that the working endeavours of ordinary citizens would always be equal to the value of  a currency. As time has gone on cracks have started to emerge, but the method of dealing with this situation is to ignore it and never mention the bind we find our selves in.
So this has now led to a even more dangerous phenomenon called the BITCOIN ,which we are told is mined out of thin air, according to a complicated mathematical formula, which no one fully understands with no backing of any kind.
TANGABLE ASSET CLASSES are now forming additional methods of preserving wealth so as all our hard earned value is not lost.
GOLD,PLATINUM GROUP METALS,SILVER ,DIAMONDS ARE TRUE WEALTH PRESERVERS, AS THEY CAN BE USED AND STORED AS BARS,COINS OR AS JEWELLERY OR A COMBINATION OF THESE (EXCUDING DIAMONDS OF COURSE).
ANOTHER ADVANTAGE IS THAT THEY CAN BE EASILY CARRIED OR SOLD.
REAL ESTATE UNLESS IN VEHICLES SUCH AS REITS,, CAN BE A BIND IN TIMES OF DISTRESS AS THE FORMER ARE EASILY DEPOSED OF.
STOCK EXCHANGE SHARES ARE ALSO EASILY DEPOSED OF OR BOUGHT IN THE RIGHT SECTORS,MUCH BETTER THAN FIXED DEPOSITS ETC.
Stamps and paintings might not be easily deposed of in times of stress and similar objects such as antiques.
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