Stillwater Mining Company is the only U.S. producer of palladium and platinum and is the largest primary producer of platinum group metals outside of South Africa and the Russian Federation. The Company's shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWC and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SWC.U. Information on Stillwater Mining can be found at its website: www.stillwatermining.com. 
Stillwater Mining Company (NYSE:SWC) (TSE:SWC) provided today an exploration update for its Altar copper-gold project located in the Andes Mountains of Argentina's San Juan Province. Altar is a large Andean-style multiple intrusion porphyry copper-gold deposit.
In the midst of the global financial crisis, the US mining industry and the energy resource sector continues to outperform the market and remains as an investment hotspot for many institutional investors from Asia.
