Negatives and Positives

Our winter period is always a slow time for stocks in the Southern Hemesphere!

This time the market has retreated more than usual  ,burdened by the war in Ukraine,uncertainty as to when it will end and the knock on effect of rising prices as sanctions against Russia have caused energy producing products to increase.

China also has increased its preperations to invade Taiwan and seems to be using older methods to counteract their latest covid outbreak.

Inflation is increasing worldwide as populations are finding it difficult to find work leading to unrest.

On the positive side our minerals and metals which have fallen in price quite sharply will be first to pick up as there will always be a demand for them and oversupply stocks have run down.

We are supposedly neutral in this conflict,but it would good for our rulers to remembeer that the West are our main buyers!

Green hydrogen’s business case significantly strengthened, summit hears

Green hydrogen’s business case significantly strengthened, summit hears: Green hydrogen, when earlier identified as a necessary clean energy source to help the world achieve net-zero emissions in the coming decades, was higher up the cost curve than fossil fuels. Now that has changed with this week’s Financial Times Hydrogen Summit emphasising that green hydrogen’s competitive price position, brought about by rising fossil fuel prices, is likely to be entrenched.

Venture capital funded greenfield exploration is world’s riskiest pursuit, Junior Indaba hears

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Venture capital funded greenfield exploration is world’s riskiest pursuit, Juright hand side colunmthe nior Indaba hears: A deep understanding of the critical drivers of greenfields exploration by junior resource companies and by the majors. “You can’t hope to attract them to invest in your country if you don’t understand how their business model works,” Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter said during his keynote address on day one of the 2022 Junior Indaba covered by Mining Weekly. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)

Bushveld’s VRFB value chain to benefit the economies of several provinces

Bushveld’s VRFB value chain to benefit the economies of several provinces: Vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals’ strategy to establish itself in all stages of the vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) value chain will benefit the local economies of three of South Africa’s provinces, claimed Bushveld Minerals subsidiary Bushveld Energy business development manager Neo Kgatuke at the Mpumalanga Energy Summit in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga, on May 25. The company’s vanadium processing plant Vanchem is also located in eMalahleni.

Platinum jewellery continuing to drive 25% of platinum demand

Platinum jewellery continuing to drive 25% of platinum demand: Several reports published during Platinum Week indicate that in 2021, platinum jewellery consumed anywhere between 1.6-million ounces to two-million ounces of platinum, which makes it still the second demand source after automotive, coming in at around 25% of total platinum demand. Positive momentum for platinum jewellery is being maintained in the US, which shone like a star in 2021, and Japan, where platinum jewellery commands more than half of all jewellery sales.

South Africa would do well to highlight its key iridium status to world that needs this very rare metal

South Africa would do well to highlight its key iridium status to world that needs this very rare metal: South Africa would do well to highlight its key iridium supply status to gain the full confidence of a world that requires this very rare platinum group metal (PGM) to advance the fast-moving hydrogen economy. Iridium is a potent co-roleplayer with PGM stalwart platinum when it comes to electrolysing hydrogen from water.

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Wimbledon opts for platinum to mark Queen’s jubilee, centre court centenary

Wimbledon opts for platinum to mark Queen’s jubilee, centre court centenary: In the year of the Queen of England’s platinum jubilee, the coins to be used in the Wimbledon ladies’ and gentlemen’s singles finals coin toss will be made of platinum for the first time in the championships’ history. This follows last month’s unveiling by the UK Royal Mint of its largest ever platinum coin to coincide with the year of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee.