Outside gold and silver, precious-metals mining often means platinum-group metals with highly specialized demand in autocatalysts, jewelry, chemicals, and investment products. These markets are usually smaller and structurally tighter, so price can move sharply when physical availability, lease rates, or end-use substitution changes. That makes the group more supply-sensitive and less liquid than gold miners.
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Other Precious Metals & Mining at a glance
2025 platinum deficit
WPIC forecast for the 2025 platinum market deficit.
2025 supply change
WPIC June 2025 view for platinum supply and demand.
YTD platinum price move
WPIC said platinum rose 55% year to date by June 18, 2025.
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Key factors
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The industry is really a balance between only a few recurring variables
This page emphasizes the interaction between the factors rather than treating them as isolated bullets. That usually gives a truer picture of how returns are really made.
These markets can become supply-driven very quickly because above-ground stocks are limited.
Catalysts and industrial applications still anchor much of the demand base.
A tight lease market is often a stronger signal than the spot price alone.
Tight physicals
Smaller precious-metals markets reprice faster when physical availability tightens
Compared with gold, these markets are smaller, less liquid, and more exposed to localized supply shock and lease-market tension.
WPIC forecast for the 2025 platinum market deficit.
WPIC June 2025 view for platinum supply and demand.
WPIC said platinum rose 55% year to date by June 18, 2025.
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