SA’s platinum group metals (PGMs) producers face a renewed and serious threat to demand from increased Covid-19 infections in Europe, a big market for the metals.
The three main metals automakers use — platinum, palladium and rhodium — come mainly from mining companies in SA, the world’s single-largest source of PGMs, with Russia a most important source of palladium. Rhodium is largely an SA mineral...
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