South African Platinum Supply to Rise 5%

Boosted by stockpile sales - Johnson Matthey JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Supply of platinum from South Africa, the world's top source of the precious metal, will rise by 5 percent this year, with the sale of stocks countering lower output, a leading metal refiner said on Tuesday. The producer of four fifths of the world's platinum, will see supply rise by 210,000 ounces to 4.73 million ounces in 2009 mainly due to sales of the metal produced last year, but were unsold until this year, Johnson Matthey (JM) said in its Platinum 2009 Interim Review. Although three new mines have started up in South Africa, and a number of others have increased production, output of platinum concentrate will fall, but changes in refined stocks will ensure supplies will increase, JM said. [Read more...]

Goldcorp to buy Canplats

Goldcorp to buy Canplats for C$238m TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's Goldcorp Inc (G.TO: Quote) said on Monday it has agreed to acquire junior gold miner Canplats Resources Corp (CPQ.V: Quote) for about C$238 million ($229 million) as it tries to establish a network of satellite mines around its Penasquito gold project in Mexico. [Read more...]

Lonmin to Boost Platinum Output 20%

By 2013 to take advantage of climbing prices LONDON (Reuters) - Lonmin Plc, the world's third biggest platinum producer, swung to an annual loss on weak prices and lower output, but said it planned to boost output by a fifth by 2013 as prices climb on shortages. [Read more...]

Newmont Peru Gold Mine

Newmont expects steady output from Peru gold mine LIMA (Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp (NEM.N: Quote) said on Thursday it expects output at Yanacocha -- one of Latin America's largest gold mines -- to hold steady in the next few years, contradicting an earlier forecast made by its partner. Yanacocha, run jointly by U.S.-based Newmont and Peruvian precious metals miner Buenaventura (BUEv.LM: Quote) (BVN.N: Quote), reported sales of 1.8 million ounces of gold last year. "This year, we're going to have something similar to 2008 production ... and for the next few years, we're going to maintain levels of around 1.8, 1.9 million ounces," Carlos Santa Cruz, Newmont's vice president of South American operations, told reporters. [Read more...]

Top 100 Mining Stocks

Amid power buying, trends and patterns from the 100 most popular listed mining names. JOHANNESBURG - Stock markets are flying just about everywhere; the MSCI world equities USD index is trading at 12-month highs, along with the MSCI emerging markets USD, as are the Dow Jones Industrial, S+P 500, and DJ Stoxx 600; some markets are lagging a little, as seen in China's CSI 300, and given general buoyancy there has been some profit-taking as seen in Russia's Micex Russia and the India Nifty. Most equities subsectors are also doing very well; in general, buying has the air of indiscrimination about it, with value-seeking discernible at the margin. Any kind of positive sign or story, and chances are that a stock dressed in the fashions of the moment will fly. A year ago, of course, the world was cluttered to paralysis with almost universal predictions that the world would end under the weight of a Great Depression of fatal proportions. [Read more...]

Junior Gold Miners ETF

US asset manager, Van Eck, is launching that fund, it says will focus on small and mid-cap developers NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. asset manager Van Eck Global said on Wednesday it has launched a junior gold miners exchange-traded fund (ETF) on the New York Stock Exchange, focusing on small- and mid-cap gold deposit developers. The New York-based company said the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF GDXJ has started trading under the ticker symbol GDXJ on Wednesday on the NYSE Arca platform, where many other ETFs are listed. [Read more...]

Vietnamese central bank to allow gold imports

Vietnamese central bank to allow gold imports to stabilize currency HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's central bank said on Wednesday it would allow imports of gold to stabilise the market after the price of gold onshore rose sharply in recent days, which helped push the value of the Vietnamese dong down. "The State Bank of Vietnam will allow gold imports with a volume sufficient to interfere in the market in order to stabilise the market, combat speculation and prevent an impact on the interests of the people," it said in a statement. [Read more...]

Indian Gold ETFs

Gold underlying Indian ETFs jumped 25.7% year on year MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's gold collection under exchange-traded funds rose 25.7% on year to 7.049 tonnes in October, when the yellow metal touched new record highs, data from the funds showed. Gold futures on the continuation chart on the Multi Commodity Exchange made three record highs in October, before hitting a fresh all-time high of 16,703 rupees on Monday. [Read more...]

Pan American Silver

Reports record net income, record silver and gold production RENO, NV - Pan American Silver Tuesday reported a 172% increase in net income for the third quarter, along with record silver and gold production. CEO Geoff Burns said, "The main drivers of our third quarter performance were a well executed startup of the San Vicente mine expansion, which has been producing silver beyond our expectations, and a solid quarter at Manantial Espejo. " [Read more...]