Sibanye Stillwater预计由于CGM价格暴跌，半年亏损

Sibanye Stillwater (NYSE:SBSW) -7.4% in Tuesday's trading after saying it expects to report a half-year loss, as sliding palladium prices led to a 7.5B South African rand (~$420M) writedown on its U.S. assets.

Sibanye (SBSW) said it expects to swing to a loss of 2.508-2.772 rand/share (~a loss of $0.13-$0.15/share) for the six months to June 30 after posting a profit of 2.62 rand/share for the year-earlier period.

The miner also said it expects to report headline earnings, which exclude the impairment, of 4.6-5.0 rand/share (~$0.002-$0.003), for the six months, compared with 208 rand/share (~$0.11) for the half-year ended June 30.

H1 results were affected by lower revenue on the back of a decline in prices for platinum group metals, lower production and higher costs for the South African gold operations, and lower production from the South African PGM operations.

Sibanye (SBSW) pointed to a 30% decline in the average dollar price for its U.S. metal and a 28% drop in the rand basket price for its southern African PGMs, during the half-year.

The revenue impact was partly offset by an 18% Y/Y increase in the average rand gold price, but the company's gold production likely fell by more than 20% after it closed an old shaft and seismic activity limited its access to high-grade material.

Sibanye's (SBSW) two U.S. PGM operations are located in Montana, extracting and processing PGM ore from the J-M Reef, the highest grade PGM deposit in the world and the only known significant source of PGMs in the U.S.

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