LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Platinum prices slid 2.8 percent
on Tuesday after striking miners at the world’s number three
producer of the metal, Lonmin, accepted an offer of a 22
percent pay rise to end more than five weeks of crippling
industrial action.
Workers gathered at a soccer pitch near Lonmin’s Marikana
mine said they would return to work on Thursday.
Spot platinum fell as low as $1,614.80 an ounce, and
was down 2.4 percent at $1,621.74 an ounce at 1552 GMT.
(Reporting by Jan Harvey; editing by James Jukwey)
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