Gregory Fenves recently got a big promotion, from provost to president of the University of Texas at Austin. A raise came with it. Instead of his current base of about $425,000, he was offered $1 ...

The world’s biggest platinum producers face a dilemma: they’re reporting bumper profits just as they enter negotiations with labor unions over a three-year wage deal. That surge in earnings has been ...

Would you like to invest in platinum? “What? Why platinum?” – you’d probably ask back. And correctly so, this shiny metal has been declining in the previous years and only recently did it show some ...

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South African platinum strikes are costing the nation about $36-million a day, the mining chamber estimated, as the world's three largest producers of the metal and the union leading the walkout ...

Rock drill operators (RDOs) across the South African platinum industry are paid between R10 000 and R12 000 a month, Chamber of Mines of South Africa VP Mark Cutifani was at pains to explain at a ...