Aquarius, the world’s fourth-leading producer of platinum, will benefit from surged demand for the metal in the second half of 2009, it has been claimed. For full story, click here
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Aquarius Platinum Ltd, the world’s fourth-biggest producer of platinum, declared fourth quarter attributable production surged 1 percent to 98,258 platinum group metal ounces. For full story, click here
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Aquarius Platinum, a producer of the metal in southern Africa, rallied for a second day after the company declared that it’s preparing to reopen its Everest mine in South Africa seven months after closing it. For full story, click here
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Aquarius Platinum, a producer of the metal in southern Africa, declared that it’s preparing to reopen its Everest mine in South Africa, seven months after closing it with the loss of almost 2,000 jobs. For full story, click here
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Aquarius declared that Rand Merchant Bank, a division of FirstRand Bank Limited has elected to exercise their entitlement to upscale the issue size for the Bonds and consequently ZAR650 million floating rate senior secured convertible bonds have been allocated. For full story, click here
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The proposed transaction consists of two phases. In the first phase Aquarius Platinum has intended to acquire the business of Firstplats, comprising mining rights, properties and related fixed and movable mining assets of certain portions of the Brakspruit and Spruitfontein farms in the Bushveld Igneous complex in North West province. For full story, click here
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Aquarius Platinum Ltd., the world’s fourth-biggest producer of platinum, reported on Tuesday it swung to a net profit in its third quarter to end-March as higher precious metal prices and a weaker rand outweighed lower output. For full story, click here
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Midtier platinum-miner Aquarius Platinum plans to raise between $233-million and $249-million through an equity capital raising and a convertible bond issue to help fund its proposed acquisition of Ridge Mining. For full story, click here
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Aquarius Platinum Ltd., the world’s fourth-largest platinum producer declared that the company will raise as much as $249 million from bond and share sales to pay for its proposed acquisition of Ridge Mining Plc. For full story, click here
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Aquarius Platinum Ltd (AQP.L) plans to make an all-share bid for Ridge Mining Plc (RDG.L) valuing the firm at 63.9 million pounds ($90.37 million) to expand its resource base and output. For full story, click here
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