Australia’s platinum pioneer highlighting greenness, mulling smelterless tech

Australia’s platinum group metals (PGMs) pioneer, Podium Minerals, is evaluating the cleanest and greenest mining and processing options that include the possibility of circumventing the need for smelting. The Australian Stock Exchange-listed exploration and resources development company, which is placing major emphasis on environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations, has just completed a conceptual study as part of an update of its six-million-ounce Parks Reef resource base in Western Australia. (See attached map.)

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