Pan African, gold mining company that produces approximately 100,000 oz per year, has announced that it would increase its resource to 15.8% in its Phoenix project to 469 000 oz of 4E PGM (platinum, palladium, rhodium and gold). Pan African CEO Jan Nelson is quoted saying: “The increase in the total resources, assuming a 50% [...]
North American Palladium (NAP) is planing its scoping study for their Offset zone at its Lac des Iles (LDI) palladium mine, in northern Ontario. The said scoping study will start by Q3 of 2010. NAP CEO William Biggar is quoted saying: “And the Offset zone is the real growth driver at LDI, with the potential [...]
Pan African Mining Corp. (TSX-V: PAF) has announced that its Phoenix project has an increased resource of 15.8 percent for its palladium, platinum, rhodium and gold. CEO Jan Nelson is quoted saying: “The increase in the total resources, assuming a 50% recovery, extends the life of the Phoenix project from 13 years to approximately 16 [...]
North American Palladium (NAP), a precious-metals producer, is doing a scoping study to develop the new Offset zone at its Lac des Iles (LDI) Palladium mine in northern Ontario and expects completion by Q3 of this year. CEO William Biggar is quoted saying: “This will make NAP a very low cost producer of palladium.” Click [...]
North American Palladium Ltd (PDL.TO), a Canadian precious metals company, has reported its Q1 net loss of C$14,6-million ($14,27 million). This is converted to 11 Canadian cents per share. 2009′s operating expenses of the company was only at C$738,000 but rose to C$18.2 million for the first quarter of 2010 due to production costs from [...]
Palladium was the only precious to be on the positive track on Monday, as the equity rally deteriorated the flight to safe haven investments. Palladium’s near term outlook remains bleak, as reports from Europe said that car registrations dropped 18 percent in February.
This week, palladium finally began to follow gold and lose some of its safe haven appeal. After holding steady and resisting gold’s sell-off, platinum and palladium have finally succumbed, dropping rapidly in this morning as poor auto industry numbers rolled in.
Premium Exploration Inc. reported today that the PGM anomalies previously reported at the Chrome Mountain PGM project were formed by the same type of processes that formed the Platreef PGM deposits in South Africa.
Colossus Minerals Inc. is an exploration and development company focused on gold and platinum group metals in Brazil. Led by a skilled management team, the company is managing and developing its Serra Pelada gold, platinum and palladium project.
As less of the palladium is mined, the average production costs go up further since companies will have more difficulty covering their fixed costs without higher prices. For full story, click here
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