Price of Platinum is exploding:

[oak333]

Platinum price is exploding:

https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=PL&p=m1

Right now is trending to 1,200 $. In 2008 was 2,200 $

Platinum demand is going to increase from 2.7 Moz to 4.5 Moz

Platinum supply-demand is going to deficit from 2024

From 2025 Platinum will start to replace Palladium.

[oak333]

Platinum price is bound to go up.

In 2020 demand decreased by 7 % but supply decreased by 20 % (pandemics)
The deficit was 1 Moz for an industry which consumes 8 Moz a year.

Uses of platinum:
----investment 13 %
----industrial 25 %
----auto catalyst 32 %
----jewelry 23 %
----other 7 %

Platinum demand for autos is increasing.

https://sprott.com/insights/pandemic...emic-platinum#

[jrtjrt]

Hi Oak,

Was reading that there is a couple million ounces in reserve being warehoused. Hoping that the price stays low for a few more years, and then does a palladium rocket in 2024ish. Supposed to be large deficit's starting in late 2023 according to Johnson mathey. The mines are so old now that it takes much longer to process and dig it all out of the ground. Companies are not investing in new mines either.

[yellowsnow]

Hi Oak,

Was reading that there is a couple million ounces in reserve being warehoused. Hoping that the price stays low for a few more years, and then does a palladium rocket in 2024ish. Supposed to be large deficit's starting in late 2023 according to Johnson mathey. The mines are so old now that it takes much longer to process and dig it all out of the ground. Companies are not investing in new mines either.

i do believe Pd, Pt, Rh are truly rare metals, one can't just pan for them nor go metal detecting for them.
Unlike gold

[jrtjrt]

Yeah just the fact that only 6 million ounces of pt is mined each year, and silver is 850-900 million, not even 1% the mining production of silver. Recycling is 15-20% of the annual needed material as well. Pt. price is only 45-50 times the price of silver seems incredibly low. Look what happened to iridium the last 4 months it went up from 2300 to 6000$ just based off of a small supply deficit.

[everything1]

That's not warehoused, that's millions of dollars, that's locked up tight. Were you guys selling any when we hit 1300 last month?

[motocat]

i do believe Pd, Pt, Rh are truly rare metals, one can't just pan for them nor go metal detecting for them.
Unlike gold

Actually, there is more platinum in the earths crust then gold, look it up. I've always liked platinum, but no reason to bash gold which is really the king of metals and the most monetary of all metals. For those more accustomed to thinking digitally, consider gold more like a long term bond (only far better for various reason), while platinum value behaves more like a typical commodity, while silver is a combo.

[yellowsnow]

Actually, there is more platinum in the earths crust then gold, look it up. I've always liked platinum, but no reason to bash gold which is really the king of metals and the most monetary of all metals. For those more accustomed to thinking digitally, consider gold more like a long term bond (only far better for various reason), while platinum value behaves more like a typical commodity, while silver is a combo.

not bashing gold, just stating the obvious.
Most of those plentiful Pt atoms within earth crust are inaccessible or uneconomical to produce, don't count in my book.
https://usdebtclock.org/gold-precious-metals.html Pt is 1.7X rarer than gold.

Most of the gold mined are still above ground somewhere
Most of platinum mined are consumed and not recovered due to high cost of recycling and refining, and blown off the tail pipe

How Much Platinum is in the World?
This estimated 8 million ounces of .999 fine platinum bullion above ground supply is valued at approximately USD 7.44 billion in current value based on a current fiat Fed note $930 oz platinum spot price.
https://sdbullion.com/blog/how-much-...s-in-the-world


The World Gold Council estimates that all the gold ever mined totals 187,200 tonnes, as of 2017

That's ~ 0.9 oz 0.999 gold per person on earth versus 0.033 gram of .999 Pt per person on earth.

1.7X rarer by remaining reserves, 850X rarer than gold by above ground physical

[Primalator]

Palladium is much more abundant than Platinum in the Earth's crust.
It's the most common of the PGMs under our feet.
More common than Gold.

[ruthenium]

we are close to many miners ASIC here maybe 840 to 900 USD. The SA rand did not weaken this year, rather it strengthens also the ESG and energy costs go up by incredible maybe 50% from 2020 averages......oil is expensive. so a 400,000 oz surplus is not in the cards check out the price curve everybody in the red band is going to be in trouble. Impalas AISC will be interesting....I own a little IMPALA stock just to get my emotions out of it, and will buy much more at 900-875 spot USD. I do have a synthetic operation line for impala as a function of Pd, Pt, Rh, and USD/SArand

check out the curves

https://www.minxcon.co.za/wp-content...ost-Curves.pdf