Could be relevant to gold and silver.....



The
price of platinum could increase by 50% in 2008, according to a
poll of analysts by the Reuters news agency. Prices are pushed higher
by production problems in South Africa and a rise in demand for
catalytic converters using the metal to filter fumes. The poll sees the
median price of platinum at US$2,000 an ounce in 2008 and US$2,100
in 2009. It was US$1,304 in 2007. Anglo American, which produces

40% of world platinum output, has been hit by power cuts and strikes