Volumes but no price action show that investors have been taking a wait-and-see approach to Orion Minerals since its secondary JSE listing in mid-September. Though zinc and copper prices have surged in the past year, Orion is at least three years away from being able to take advantage of them.

The static price probably reflects the lack of local punters willing to take a bet on small mining companies not yet in production (unlike in Orion’s primary listing, Australia), and an SA environment of great uncertainty for mining...

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