Thunderstorms predicted for the weekend near Steelpoort... so I am feeling calm atm. How R U Misfits, good thread title btw, imo.
Given some time to time to get things shorted out or sorted out...goodo.
Miners? running short on platinum for customers according to this report and even the producers may be buying on the open market? not sure how that works...
see http://www.iol.co.za/business/companies/impala-may-buy-platinum-1.1669362
"Johannesburg - Impala Platinum said it may buy metal on the open market to meet customer deliveries as a strike at the world’s largest producers of the metal is in its third month.
“We definitely can’t continue to supply all our clients as we normally would’ve done,” Johan Theron, a spokesman for Johannesburg-based Impala, the second-biggest producer, said today by phone. " continues
************************** and you just cant start mining this commodity like that...its a very long process to start a new mine, isnt it? Takes Years of hard work and huge expenditure just to get to the starting line....and then there are delays to the starting gun going off and false starts...but you have to line up again ...get ready, SET, .....waiting waiting
NKP Price at posting:
7.9¢ Sentiment: None Disclosure: Held