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  Stillwater announces platinum production figures

  9th May 2008: 

  Stillwater Mining, the US platinum firm, announced that first quarter production of platinum and palladium declined to 129,000 oz down from 144,000 oz in the first quarter of 2007.
  
  The firm blamed a lack of skilled workers at the operations for the decline in production.
  
  Stillwater Mining used a one-week-on and one-week-off work schedule to allow them to hire workers outside of Montana and while this was successful at first the workers left to be closer to their families, Mining Weekly reports.

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