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Impala Platinum Holdings

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2019: Purchase of the Canadian North American Palladium for $1 billion

In October, 2019 the South African company Impala Platinum Holdings stated that it will purchase the North American Palladium Ltd company which is in Canada for 1 billion Canadian dollars.

It will be the first purchase of the mining enterprise by the African company outside the continent.

The prices of palladium doubled since August, 2018. The reason – consumption growth in automotive industry which makes hybrid cars and cars with the petrol engine more and more. Toughening of ecological requirements to cars in China and the Eurozone, growth of the largest automobile markets by 1–3% a year provide increase in demand for metal.