CORRECTED - CORRECTED-Platinum hits record on supply, gold rises

(Corrects price of Comex gold in second last paragraph to
$927.1 an ounce, not $827.1, also corrects the ask price for
silver in New York in last paragraph)

SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Platinum hit another record
high on Monday on the back of lingering supply concerns in
South Africa, which produces four-fifths of the world's metal,
while gold firmed near an historic high.

-- Platinum <XPT=> rose to $1,886/1,894 an ounce from
$1,880/1,888 late in New York on Friday.

-- South Africa has appealed to mining companies for help
in cutting power consumption to ease a power crisis caused by
the failure of electricity generation to match economic growth.

-- Spot gold <XAU=> firmed to $923.00/924.50 an ounce from
$918.00/918.70 an ounce in New York and held near a record high
of $936.50 an ounce hit in early February.

-- Markets in Tokyo were closed for a holiday. The
benchmark platinum futures contract <0#JPL:> on the Tokyo
Commodity Exchange ended 130 yen per gram higher at 6,143 yen
on Friday.

-- The dollar held mostly steady on Monday after a weekend
Group of Seven meeting acknowledged growing risks to the global
economy and kept comments on currencies almost unchanged from
the October statement. [ID:nT285148]

-- The euro edged up to $1.4520 <EUR=> from late in New
York on Friday, with trade very thin as Tokyo was closed on
Monday while China was still celebrating Lunar New Year.

-- Palladium <XPD=> hit a high of $437 an ounce, matching
Friday's 6-year high. It was quoted at $436/441 late in New
York.

-- COMEX's April gold futures GCJ8 rose $4.8 an ounce to
$927.1 an ounce.

-- Silver <XAG=> edged up to $17.20/17.25 an ounce from
$17.10/17.15 in New York.
Precious metals prices at 0047 GMT
Metal Last Change Pct chg YTD pct chg
Turnover
Spot Gold 923.00 -0.50 -0.05 10.84
Spot Silver 17.20 0.03 +0.17 16.45
Spot Platinum 1887.00 7.00 +0.37 24.14
Spot Palladium 437.00 1.00 +0.23 18.75
Euro/Dollar 1.4540
Dollar/Yen 107.39
TOCOM prices in yen per gram, except TOCOM silver which is
priced in yen per 10 grams. Spot prices in $ per ounce.

(Reporting by Lewa Pardomuan; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)