Primary Recommendation

Aquarius Platinum - Huge expansion in production

January 2004

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The love affair between investors and mineral producers is starting to take on heroic proportions, with the FTSE-mining index up 49% since January and standing at its highest level. Much of the action is occurring in precious metals particularly platinum where increasing demand for use in jewellery, autocatalysts and cell phones, is sending the price sky-rocketing to levels not seen for over twenty years. One company set to benefit from this euphoria is Aquarius which joined the full list four years ago. After hitting the jackpot with its first development in South Africa, it is firmly on track to more than double annual production by 2006 to over 600,000 ounces of Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) a year, a level ...

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Aquarius Platinum (September 2008)

Aquarius Platinum - Buys back Impalaâ€™s stake (June 2008)

Aquarius Platinum (March 2008)

Aquarius Platinum - Net cash soars to nearly US$400m (December 2007)

Aquarius Platinum - Cash balances soar to US$288m (September 2007)

Aquarius Platinum - Shares volatile in wake of strike action (June 2007)

Aquarius Platinum - Bid speculation boosts shares (March 2007)

Aquarius Platinum - Platinum prices in new upwards spike (December 2006)

Aquarius Platinum - Large return of cash expected in 2008 (November 2006)

Aquarius Platinum - Large dividend payouts looming (October 2006)

Aquarius Platinum (June 2006)

Aquarius Platinum - Profits jump on rising PGM prices (March 2006)

Aquarius Platinum - Production set to double as platinum soars above US$1000 / ounce (January 2006)

Aquarius Platinum - Platinum production forecast to double in two years (September 2005)

Aquarius Platinum - Weather problems have abated (September 2004)

Aquarius Platinum - Bad weather affects production (June 2004)

Aquarius Platinum - Another rise in platinum price (April 2004)

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