SAMI

Mining Investment Index

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PGMs

+0.1 Overall sentiment

Dimension breakdown

Production	Policy	ESG	Labor	Price
0.0	+0.2	+0.3	-0.8	+0.6

Coverage (35 articles)

• Chrome export levy resurfaces in new industrial strategy

  Miningmx · 9 Jun · -0.5
• Omnia pays special dividend, shrugs off Iran disruption

  Miningmx · 8 Jun · +0.3
• Nearly 500 jobs at risk as Wesizwe restructures Bakubung Platinum Mine

  Business Day · 4 Jun · -0.7
• Implats monitoring contractor strike at Rustenburg shaft

  Miningmx · 4 Jun · -0.3
• Wesizwe Platinum to cut staff 70% as rips up mining plan

  Miningmx · 4 Jun · -0.7
• Wesizwe to retrench nearly 500 employees amid Bakubung development strategy change

  Mining Weekly · 4 Jun · -0.6
• WESIZWE PLATINUM LIMITED - Bakubung Platinum Mine enters Section 189 consultations and operational update

  JSE SENS · 4 Jun · -0.8
• UN ECA launches large-scale project to strengthen SADC critical minerals value chains

  Mining Weekly · 3 Jun · +0.5
• Platinum investment demand broadening to minor PGM metals, SFA (Oxford) points out

  Mining Weekly · 3 Jun · +0.6
• South Africa can become strong value-add minerals player again, PyroFuZA points out

  Mining Weekly · 2 Jun · +0.4
• Water security a growing risk for SA mining

  Miningmx · 28 May · -0.6
• Platinum Week cognoscenti agree the metal will keep rolling on

  Miningmx · 26 May · +0.6
• Comrade Gwede, BEE isn’t worth the scrap paper it was written on

  Miningmx · 25 May · -0.8
• Tharisa considering main market listing in London

  Miningmx · 21 May · +0.6
• Tharisa agrees fiscal rules with Zimbabwe for $545m project

  Miningmx · 21 May · +0.5
• Mantengu announces reverse takeover by UAE energy firm

  Miningmx · 20 May · -0.1
• Mantashe acknowledges power inflation hurting metals industry

  Miningmx · 19 May · -0.3
• Investors take profits from platinum but tailwinds persist

  Miningmx · 18 May · +0.4
• Merafe’s Eskom deal: Government needs it more

  Miningmx · 15 May · +0.1
• Tharisa shares jump on profit surge

  Miningmx · 14 May · +0.8
• Precious metals lift SA mining output in Q1

  Miningmx · 14 May · +0.7
• Sibanye’s R18bn Finland expansion is tip of the iceberg

  Miningmx · 14 May · +0.3
• Motsepe says SA mining regains edge through public partnerships

  Miningmx · 12 May · +0.6
• Stewart aims to keep it simple at Sibanye-Stillwater

  Miningmx · 11 May · +0.1
• Sibanye-Stillwater raises $500m in bond offering

  Miningmx · 8 May · +0.7
• US and South Africa open minerals investment talks

  Miningmx · 8 May · +0.5
• Is this a new era for platinum? Its miners think so

  Miningmx · 8 May · +0.8
• Tharisa agrees ‘open book’ contract with Cementation

  Miningmx · 7 May · +0.5
• JSE gold shares surge on hopes of US-Iran deal

  Miningmx · 6 May · +0.8
• Soaring metal prices give Sibanye-Stillwater stellar start to 2026

  Miningmx · 6 May · +0.8
• Southern Palladium doubles expected chrome recoveries from the Bengwenyama mine

  Miningmx · 29 Apr · +0.7
• Sylvania Platinum rakes in profits from higher pgm prices in the March quarter

  Miningmx · 29 Apr · +0.7
• Steady output in March will see Implats meet full-year targets

  Miningmx · 24 Apr · +0.5
• Maximising chrome will pay off for Southern Palladium’s Bengwenyama

  Miningmx · 24 Apr · +0.6
• Valterra normalizes quarterly production after last year’s flooding

  Miningmx · 23 Apr · +0.6

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Pilot snapshot, last compiled 9 Jun 2026. Scores are weighted by source authority and recency — see Methodology.