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PlatAfrica 2018 design and manufacture competition

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METAL CONCENTRATORS NEWS – IMMEDIATE RELEASE  The Platinum Design Competition, known as ‘PlatAfrica’, which is presented by Metal Concentrators in conjunction with Anglo American Platinum is now in its nineteenth year. PlatAfrica is a high-profile initiative that promotes innovation and nurtures new talent in platinum jewellery design and manufacturing. Metal Concentrators represents Anglo American Platinum in the South African jewellery…
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Platinum – its investment appeal

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South Africans all across the nation are hopeful that February 2018 marked the dawn of a new era, with the prospects of better working relationships between business and government, dedicated investment in the education and training of our young people and a renewed focus on developing entrepreneurs to grow our economy coupled with an intense clamp down on corruption.  MetCon…
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Thuthuka Jewellery Development Program

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The road to success as an aspiring jewellery designer and manufacturer is littered with the broken dreams of many who have travelled that route. Although a number of institutions strive to offer courses in various aspects of design, goldsmithing and diamond setting, the falloff rate remains alarming - and those who do graduate, invariably find it difficult to secure positions with manufacturing jewellers. Recognising…
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Smile

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Anyone who thinks the future for SA looks bleak and depressing, without hope, is welcome to accompany us to the Intuthuko Centre assisted by SMILE Impact in Mooiplaas. The Centre is not set in a beautiful farm, instead, as you enter the township, it looks like it could be a farm where plastic is grown. Rubbish from the Centurion area gets dumped here at…
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Smanga Shabangu

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Smanga is the enterprising owner of Ortanium Design and creator of Bullion Bear investment bars. Through his SIBEKELO Program he encourages investors to save for the future, utilising a stockvels concept wherein members contribute monthly towards the purchase of gold or silver minted bars. Each 10gm bar, produced and certified by MetCon and supplied in tamper-proof packaging, displays a stylised…
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The River of Platinum

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The platinum plated sky winked seductively over the campsite. Orange sparks leapt up to reach the stars, creating a meeting place of serenity. There is nothing quite so captivating as the South African night-sky above a bush retreat on a dark night. We sat there – the six of us, in comfortable camp chairs around the glowing embers of an…
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Cowries, Gold and Bitcoin

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Cowries, Gold and Bitcoin Hindsight has both benefits and drawbacks. If only we had invested a couple of Millions in gold in the third week of March and sold it in the second week of April, we could have turned a cool quarter Million in profit! If only … such is the plight of speculation – simply getting the timing…
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Creating fine metal masterpieces

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Move over, Midas. South Africa’s largest privately owned gold refinery is giving gold bullion a facelift. Humankind has always had a strange relationship with gold. Our arcane obsession with “all that glitters” is certainly informed by lucid, capital-driven preoccupations, but it is also somehow visceral; the enduring legacy of a primal instinct. Natanya Van Niekerk, the zealous product development manager…
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Gold, Politics and Neuroscience

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“If I know exactly what I’m going to do, what’s the good in doing it?” Pablo Picasso   Shall I invest in gold now … or should I wait? Who should I vote for … should we get married?  Decisions and choices besiege us daily.  Most are inconsequential and have short-term impact – like what to wear or which route…
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Silver – The Cinderella of Investment

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An increasing number of analysts claim that silver is undervalued and they are bullish when speaking about silver’s potential gains over the next few years. Six interesting influences that underpin the future status of silver are not commonly known: Natural Below-ground Supplies: A number of indicators that confirm that silver mining production appears to be reaching its peak. According to…
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